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Started by Lord Kermit of Birkenhead, 28 May 2016, 07:56:50 AM

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Subedai

I worked for Access (the credit card company) and go back as far as 1972 for computer mainframes, IBM 360 and 370 series to be exact. Also the peripherals were 64 x IBM 3330 disk drives, 16 x 3420 tape drives plus punch card readers and telex machines. One of our trainee tests was to get them to put back all the cutouts from a punch card by colour and alphanumeric character. The cutouts made fantastic confetti -the bl**dy stuff got everywhere!

I once worked on an IBM 512k machine running OS in 3 partitions.

Nowadays, I am happy just to get a result by turning the damn thing on. Plus I am so much more tolerant on speeds than others after my work history with the damn things.

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I first programmed with punch cards.
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I first programmed with coding forms that were mailed to the University where the punch card operators punched them, ran the job and then mailed the results back

Three runs a fortnight if you were quick with the updated coding forms :o
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andys

I've got 10 on this laptop. It seems OK apart from the boot time, which can be anything from less than a minute to 5 minutes or more. Sometimes it doesn't boot and I'm reduced to holding down the power button to force it off, then waiting a few seconds to press the button to start again.

There doesn't seem to be any reason for the varying boot times that I can see.

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Ithoriel

Quote from: paulr on 20 August 2016, 04:32:40 AM
I first programmed with coding forms that were mailed to the University where the punch card operators punched them, ran the job and then mailed the results back

Three runs a fortnight if you were quick with the updated coding forms :o

My first encounter with programming was the same. I was in final year of school, final exams were over but if you wanted to stay to the bitter end of the school year you could do a short computing course.

The coding sheets went to our council computing centre and we were sometimes a little .... frivolous in our headers and REM statements. Nothing rude, you understand, just things like."Gods it must be boring having to input these sheets knowing us numpties will have screwed up the coding"

About a decade later I wound up dealing with the same computing centre and a couple of the operators remembered my name from the coding sheets because of the comments. They were grateful for the break from the tedium of the day job rather than pissed off by the nonsense, fortunately.
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Ithoriel

Real Men (tm) programme in machine code, masochists programme in vi :)
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d_Guy

Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 August 2016, 03:39:22 PM
Real Men (tm) programme in machine code, masochists programme in vi :)
Nihilists use only zeros.
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slugbalancer

BASIC

But then I was only a support guy. :-<

paulr

FORTRAN, derivatives of ALGOL & COBOL, LISP, Assembler and lots and lots of Pascal
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Ithoriel

To be fair, while I've done bits of all the things I've mentioned most of my programming for recreation was in BASIC and the professional stuff was in PERL.

3 years retired and I've already forgotten about 90% of it all.

"I've been there and I'm glad I'm out" :)
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fsn

I was trained in FORTRAN and picked up COBOL and BASIC+.

So many years later, I use spreadsheets a lot, and automate them using Macros. The structure of these macros is remarkably like FORTRAN and BASIC+ programming.

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