9 Sep
2004
9 Sep
'04
9:33 a.m.
Once upon a time when I was in High School, I used to visit Santa Clara
University. I would
get there 0-dark:30. I was able to use card punches to create my
program decks, There were
some sort of pre-punched JCL cards. Cards in Hopper - I think I pushed
something - cards read
2100 rumbles Line printer starts printing. So It was some sort of
batch system.
I think it had Algol and Fortran and Assembly Language as it's
languages.
Hp 2100 (square white lights)
Card Reader
Line Printer
1 Cartridge disk drive with a flat disk that slid in horizontally
1 9 track tape drive
Highspeed paper tape reader
Highspeed punch
Boot tape was a bout 2 ft long
something special about the octal number 102077
BTW will simh compile on Mac OS X?