Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:31:31 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Paul Murphy <paul.murphy@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base Message-ID: <4408A7A3.8080700@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060302100250.GC733@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <000001c63d69$fa961cc0$0a0a0a0a@aus.pervasive.com> <004001c63d95$241e6130$0500a8c0@upton.net> <20060302100250.GC733@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-Mar-01 20:03:38 -0500, Paul Murphy wrote: >> Larry Rosenman wrote: >>> Wilko Bulte wrote: >>>> Only if it has a mechanical reader (with sensing pins for the holes). >>>> An optical reader won't do > > Optical readers can't handle the output from chad-less punches. > I was forced to throw mine out when I moved last. :-( > >> I remember, back in the day, all the CS kids walking around with huge >> stacks of PUNCH-CARDS. > > We were told (by our lecturers) that we should use punch cards, rather > than the terminals, so that we wouldn't loose our work when the computer > crashed. One of my assignments was roughly a full box of cards but I've > mislaid them. I remember that the Cumputing centre even had a puchcard sorter, so that in case that you dropped a big pack you need not do the sorting by hand. (If you had taken the effort to number them in the last 8 columns. No idea if this was typical Burroughs.... Started programming intel 8008 kits by toggeling the bootcode into 512 bytes. After a while you get to know the opcodes by hart, and even jump distance would become a way of life. And I don't count programming a TI58a math calculator as real programming. --WjW
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