10 Aug
2001
10 Aug
'01
8:58 a.m.
-kb, the Kent who also once opened a comment before
column 76 and
didn't close another comment before column 76 for many lines, causing
the intervening lines to be silently dropped.
P.S. Circa 1980 we even did one assignment on a punch card machine.
The physical reader was a relatively svelt machine (at least compared
to the central beasts we students could not touch), and it talked to
an impressive looking, floppy-equipped PDP-11/34, bootstrapped via the
front panel and everything. (Did they call the whole thing a Remote
Job Entry Station?) What *was* that record separator card? A 6-7-8
overpunch? What was the job separator card??
On the Cybers, 6/7/8 was EOR (end-of-record), and 6/7/8/9 was EOI
(end-of-information). I suppose that's what you mean by "job
separator").
-dq