Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: polygonum Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the days of punch cards and coding in pencil Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:19:11 +0100 Organization: me Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20140428143101.ef28cbd2.rsw@therandymon.com> <280420141715506988%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net KV9Z++rYO+jwcNZEv+reCQdyCAtUMlrTLAPcY7QNSq42ULk6w= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uLmDmEAnRp9s7mojPMO81LJ5R58= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <280420141715506988%timstreater@greenbee.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2504 On 28/04/2014 17:15, Tim Streater wrote: > Largely cock. You might write your code on sheets, but then you'd go > find a card punch and create your deck of cards, make it into a job > with some data, and test it. By the time I was a professional > programmer (1968), I'd be getting the results an hour or so later. Largely not cock. Aligns closely with my experience - coding sheets, sent to data entry clerks, and we got the printed program listing. We did have manual card punches but they tended to be used for edits rather than the initial program entry. And we used silver foils for correcting individual cards. I very quickly moved to the team who were using glass teletypes... :-) -- Rod