Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jan 12 2024 06:27:00

-=> Dr. What wrote to Nightfox <=-

 DW> My Freshman year in college was the first year CS majors DIDN'T have to
 DW> use punch cards.  That would have been 1983.  Some engineers still had
 DW> to use them, though.

 I was in my senior year of high school in 1983. We were programming on
 Commodore CBM machines (PETs with custom ROMS for graphics and 32K of
 RAM instead of 8K).

 Our teacher brought in a computer system that ran on punched cards, and
 we had to enter a job on punched cards. We didn't understand why at the
 time, but he said "Trust me, you'll want to do this..."

 "SONNY, WHEN I STARTED OUT WE DIDN'T HAVE THOSE NEWFANGLED TERMINALS,
 WE USED PUNCHED CARDS TO ENTER OUR JOBS..." I get to say that now.   :)




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