Funny Picture - Video Thread III

[ETH77]

Some of mine on the interpreter boards (old PCAM equipment- punched card accounting machines) from the 70’s

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Those were fun times. I ran an IBM collater in LA during summer school. I should have just attended the computer class I’d had scheduled the semester before.

 

[Coyote9]

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All Hail the once and future king!! also discourages tailgaters!

 

[no2gates]

Some of my first programs were stored on paper tape.

Same here, we had a timeshare terminal in high school that had a paper tape for saving programs.
I also took a Fortran class in college and we used Hollerith cards.

 

[oldag]

Same here, we had a timeshare terminal in high school that had a paper tape for saving programs.
I also took a Fortran class in college and we used Hollerith cards.

And those time share arrangements charged by the seconds of CPU time used.

 

[kbaxter60]

I also took a Fortran class in college and we used Hollerith cards.

I took FORTRAN also. Luckily, the cards were being phased out and we had access to on-campus terminals. I did also access from home with my Commodore 64 and 300 baud modem. It was slow and the longer code lines wrapped two or three times, but you could make simple edits. Good times!
The poor students still using cards would wrap their card set with dozens of rubber bands. If they got shuffled...look out!

 

[popper]

Anybody remember the Intel 4040?

 

[striker55]

My first computer was made by Timex, used a TV for the screen. Programs were on cassette tapes.

 

[Brains]

Y'all are old.

 

[dsgrey]

My first computer was made by Timex, used a TV for the screen. Programs were on cassette tapes.

I had one of those! But I also used 96 column punch cards for the IBM system 3 in college for Fortran. I believe the system 3 was the only machine that used the 96 column cards.

 

[ETH77]

Y'all are old.

You’ve got no idea! I was in the first class in the world that had to learn Pascal.

 

[Younggun]

Boring!

Bring me funny pictures!

 

[Brains]

We need TGT geezer story hour once a week, get you old farts to regale us with stories and wisdom. That'd be awesome.

 

[no2gates]

Anybody remember the Intel 4040?

I remember it but don't remember owning anything with that processor in it. Just mostly used the 6502, Z80 and 8080

 

[oldag]

I took FORTRAN also. Luckily, the cards were being phased out and we had access to on-campus terminals. I did also access from home with my Commodore 64 and 300 baud modem. It was slow and the longer code lines wrapped two or three times, but you could make simple edits. Good times!
The poor students still using cards would wrap their card set with dozens of rubber bands. If they got shuffled...look out!

Basic, Fortan, PL1, etc.

 

[no2gates]

You’ve got no idea! I was in the first class in the world that had to learn Pascal.

I used to write a bunch of programs in Borland Turbo Pascal in the 80's

 

[findingZzero]

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This used 2B me except for the last frame. Turned out I had BPH..

 

[TheDan]

 

[kbaxter60]

Basic, Fortan, PL1, etc.

If you didn't do assembly language, you missed out.

 

[ETH77]

I used to write a bunch of programs in Borland Turbo Pascal in the 80's

My class was 1973. I learned Algol next. The compiler was a lot friendlier!

 

[no2gates]

If you didn't do assembly language, you missed out.

I modified some x86 assembly, but never wrote any from scratch.
Haven't done anything other than C++ (kinda, it's Arduino "Sketches") for at least 5 years.