Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Sniper
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 04:09 pm

  To: Angus McLeod
-=> Angus McLeod wrote to Sniper <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: The Documentary...
 AM>   By: Sniper to Frank Vest on Tue Aug 16 2005 16:08:00

 >  FV> Phooey!  Born 12/21/1954. Although I didn't start computerizing myself
 >  FV> until 1990. I do, however, remember when the punch card systems were
 >  FV> being phased out. My mom brought home a bunch of the cards and we spend
 >  FV> days making Christmas wreaths out of them. Hated that... boring.
 >
 > Wow, you are old.  :)
 >
 > 01/01/61.

 AM> Damn, I've USED them punch card systems!  Coding in BASIC, Pascal,
 AM> FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol-68, and what-all else I can't rightly remember
 AM> now! I was considered a bit of an expert on the IBM 029 card punch,
 AM> because I knew how to *program* it as well as just *use* it.

 AM> Oh, and punch cards make such BEAUTIFUL roaches we used to refer to
 AM> them as "roach cards" which could be embarassing when you call them
 AM> that out of habit, and the IT staff look at you funny....

I learned a bit of that in school...  Don't hardly remember any of it 
though.  I seem to remember coding a couple of tests that were taken on 
those old punch cards for the school... 

Wouldn't know anything about that "Roach Card" point though... :)



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