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Fri Apr 07 2000 at 23:12:52
Also, those of
us
who used to
punch
cards
, but saw how
totally
cool
time sharing
was.
I
got out of that
shit
as soon as I could!
The 5081
Unit
Record
,
invent
ed by
Herman Hollerith
for the turn of the century
census
suck
ed for anything other than
data
collection.
In a
big way!
It was used in the early
1980
's by many
universities
in their
computer science
classes
.
As a
tool
to write
large
program
s, typically in
fortran
or
pascal
, you just had to
pray
that you didn't
drop
the
big
box
containing your
cards
(i.e., program)
.
Also, the
computer operator
might
accidentally
or
on-purpose
drop it, so here was another
source
of
agnst
.
Punch card
s were notoriously fragile, and envelopes that at the time were intended to contain such a card were preprinted with the
disclaimer
"
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate
"
.
The card punch
machine
gave rise to an entire
cult
of tools and
device
s that were
purported
to help the
programmer
.
There were
special
saw
s and
glove
s and
sort
ing
machines
, and even
device
s that would
annotate
your cards with
sequence
numbers and such.
All in all, I'm glad I
hop
ped over to a
PDP-11
running
RSX/11M
and
RSTS/E
as soon as I got a chance.
Cards
suck
!
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