22 Feb
2018
22 Feb
'18
11:58 p.m.
Sounds like my days as a contract programmer for Burroughs; had the keys to the building
and the combination to the (large) machine room and did all my compiling etc. in the night
when I was the only one in the building. Some pictures somewhere of a much younger me at
the console of a B2700...
The good old days when no one worried about security...
Still have some blank 96 col cards somewhere, as well as edge-punched (PPT format) and 80
col tab cards.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Lancashire via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "General" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 1:39 AM
Subject: damn ....
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs
96 col cards were the standard on the later 1700's
I had full access from midnight to 7AM but the shop was window only
until the next night.
Turn around time during the day could be as much as 4 hours.
-pete