alamanos opened this issue on Jan 29, 2007 · 127 posts
Fazzel posted Wed, 31 January 2007 at 9:23 PM
Quote - I go back to waiting in line to feed punch cards into a stack, then waiting in another room for someone to throw your output into a numbered bin. Fun, it was. That and "washing machine" disk drives, that could sometimes hold a whopping six megabytes of data. Those were definitely the days.
LOL, me too, that was my first experience with computer. Writing programs in Fortran
and putting the program on a stack of punch cards for an IBM 360. Turning the cards
in and then coming back the next day for the paper print-out. Then repunching
the cards that were wrong and resubmitting it. And you dare not drop the stack
of cards.