19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
5:53 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 18-06-98 -0700, Larry Anderson wrote:
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and
for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
Well, paper tape for the PDP-8, cards for the PDP-15 and DECsystem-10. I
still have a complete card deck for an Algol program I wrote that takes
modified BNF as input and produces the operator precedence matrix as output.
The reason for cards? Well the assignment was getting close to coding time
(ie a day or two before it was due :-) and the DEC-10 was broken and likely
to be down for a day or two. A quick brush up on IBM card punch procedures
and the deck was ready for input as soon as the -10 came up. This is the
largest card deck I ever did (about 1 card box in length).
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