Subj : Re: New Pico2 To : Single Stage to Orbit From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot Date : Wed Aug 14 2024 14:57:51 On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:27:53 +0100 Single Stage to Orbit wrote: > I suppose you'll now tell us about the joys of using punched cards. Well I could - and mention the joys of using a card saw to unblock the 1442. > I don't envy you the joys of sorting a pile of punched cards that's > been dropped on the floor ... If you prepared the cards with sequence numbers in columns 73-80 then you just dropped them into a sorter (if the site had a sorter) - otherwise it was less easy. It's the paper tape that someone trod on while you were feeding it into the spooler that was less fun. No I do not miss those days, nor the overflowing box of waste paper beside the printer under the notice ... TOWARDS THE PAPERLESS OFFICE That adorned one place where I worked on developing machines with 64K and twin floppies. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .