8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
5 p.m.
On 07/08/2016 01:42 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
And, as I mentioned previously, it was quite common
for secretaries
moonlighting as typists to bring work in and use them after-hours.
(sometimes with tacit approval from the boss! My boss gave me
after-hours access to use 026 punches, ('course I left them cleaner
than when I started, with emptied bins, refilled card supply, jams
cleared from down punches, etc.))
Another thing that's forgotten is the stratification of tasks back in
those days. Keypunching one's own code was frowned upon as a waste of
valuable technical time; there were lower-paid keypunch operators to do
that.
Similarly, having a typewriter in one's office was also frowned upon, as
there were secretaries to do that sort of work.
I had (and still have) miserable handwriting (both script and block
lettering), so I at least had a plausible excuse for doing my own
key-wrangling. But I had to put up with a considerable fog of official
disapproval.
--Chuck