[Spridgets] Bloody computers

[Jim Hammack]

   That's  why we numbered ours in the upper right-hand corner.  Black if
   the  card  never  had  to  be  changed,  and  red  if we had to change
   something - like a 7-track tape number.
   Jim Johnson wrote:

Anybody ever trip over their feet while carrying a program on a 3 foot stack
of punch cards. In 1963 IBM moved me to parts assembly at the Endwell, NY
lab when I had an unfortunate stumble on the way to the mainframe in the
Owego Lab's basement....

Cheers!!
Jim

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dave G. <dmg at bossig.com> wrote:

You had SWITCHES ??????
I had to use a plug-board   !!    <Grin>

On 3 Jun 2008 at 11:48, David Lieb wrote:

We used to dream about paper tape! I remember using register switches
to boot up the diagnostics on a DEC PDP8 after setting the power
supply voltage with the reostat on the back of the unit. Aye, those
were the days...

--
Dave G.   KK7SS
'65 MK III Sprite in Richland, WA
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
   Terry Pratchett, 'Hogfather'
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