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: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the days of punch cards and coding in pencil Date: 28 Apr 2014 20:58:49 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <20140428143101.ef28cbd2.rsw@therandymon.com> <280420141715506988%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4ydEd/HgMoaCOxhupp2IswVcaxjuJd5FJY+4sXJwoPOM0BHoTN Cancel-Lock: sha1:NozTU9PAENbxLU3z3GVeCb/sNf0= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2508 On 2014-04-28, Jerry Peters wrote: > Tim Streater wrote: >> In article <20140428143101.ef28cbd2.rsw@therandymon.com>, RS Wood >> wrote: >> >>> Interesting reminiscence, courtesy of Simon Allardice and Hacker News: >>> http://simonallardice.com/general/2014/03/17/first-computer.html >>> >>> //---snip >>> And when you were finished handwriting a section of code - perhaps a >>> full program, perhaps a subroutine - you'd gather these sheets together >>> (carefully numbered in sequence, of course) and send them along to the >>> folks in the data entry department. >>> >>> They'd type it in. >>> >>> And the next day you'd get a report to find out if it compiled or not. >> [6 lines snipped] >> >> "Data entry department" my arse. >> > Started working part-time for a large bank in 1969 while attending > college. The department had its own keypunch & operator, she did > smallish jobs and sent larger jobs to data entry. So yes this was > common into the mid 70's when we got 3270's and TSO/SPF. I started in 1975, when we wrote our code on coding sheets which went down to the keypunch department and got punched onto 8 track paper tape. We used to do corrections ourselves if the KSR33 was free. -- Today is Pungenday, the 45th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”