-=> Quoting Dirk Stuijfzand to John Angelico <=-

 DS> On 11-10-1999, John Angelico wrote to Sean Dennis:
 
 JA> F'r instance, yours truly was programming assembler, COBOL and FORTRAN on
 JA> an ICL 1900-series mainframe before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye.

 DS> I thought that I was old with my BTL (Business Transaction Language)
 DS> programming experience on the ICL 15xx intelligent terminal in 1979.
 DS> Boy I was happy to have a real 2.5MB hard disk on this otherwise 
 DS> 16k RAM US$ 25k machine..

 DS> Hand written source code on inches of real paper typed in on a screen
 DS> with 8 lines * 32 characters.  The system however took 4 lines and one
 DS> line of sourcecode needed 2 lines so you could actually see 2
 DS> sourcelines at a time. Had to memorize the whole program...

 DS> (Now we get the OS/2 users who punched cards in the past to enter data
 DS> into computers)

Not only have I punched cards, I've toggled bootstrap code into a
mainframe.

And as far as card punching goes, how many of you know what a "drum
card" for a keypunch does?

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