Quote - > 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.

 

When I was an undergrad, one of the computer rooms was in the same building as where the Cornell Film Series showed films every night -- I used to drop off the job at 8, watch the movie, and get the printout afterwards. Upson Hall was next to the (old) baseball diamond, so in the spring I would often watch the baseball team while waiting for my printouts.