Hello David!

25 Oct 99 17:52, David Noon wrote to Leonard Erickson:

 DN> In a message dated 10-23-99, Leonard Erickson said to Dirk Stuijfzand
 DN> about "Computer History"

 DN> Hi Leonard,

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

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

 DN> That was, of course, the paper tape bootstrap so that the disk
 DN> bootstrap could be read through the paper tape reader on the side of
 DN> the ASR 33 TTY that was used as a system console. I was still a mere
 DN> slip of a boy the last time I did that.

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

 DN> Oh yes. I think I can still recall the multi-punches for the IBM 029
 DN> drum program fields.

I do.  Used an IBM 026 Card Punch to do FORTRAN programs for an IBM 1401 (or
something like that).  Lot's o fun as it did not have parenthesis and other
"special" punctuation keys.  Only took about 10 minutes to boot up the system.

Now, I do c/C++ much faster...

James

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