Author: john lewis Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:59:10 +0000
Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 18:16:19 Victor Churchill wrote:
> > On 4 March 2010 17:18, Bob Dunlop <bob.dunlop@???> wrote:
> > >> That would be a 'yes' I think, or perhaps a grand old git
> > >> (paving the way for great grand old gits later in the thread who
> > >> would need to demonstrate their skills in hand-punching paper
> > >> tape bootstrap programs)
> > >
> > > Not a bootstrap but I can remember splicing paper tapes to make
> > > corrections in the middle of an image rather than repunching the
> > > whole thing, and that was paid for work not a university project.
> > >
> > > At uni I used teletypes on a regular basis and punch card
> > > machines on occasion (they were phased out in my second year).
> >
> > First job at IBM had punch cards.
>
> Mine too - tho' not at IBM. I do _just about_ remember, Victor.
> Tho' I'm not too sure that I remember what happened yesterday. ;-)
>
> We had to carry data in Securicor vans on the motorway from the
> various sites to HQ, so that the punch card room could punch the data
> up and computer operators could feed it into the one enormous
> machine .....
and my first job ca1948/9 involved me with feeding punch cards into a
mechanical sorter. I had to set the sorter up to extract data from the
cards which was a primitive kind of programming I guess.
