31 Dec
2005
31 Dec
'05
2:39 p.m.
On 12/31/2005 at 3:02 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
I have to ask all of the oldtimers here
"fortunate" enough to have
worked with punch-card systems: Even with rose-colored nostalgia
glasses at full intensity, would you ever in your life wish for a time
you could go *back* to *punch cards*?
No way. Way back when, if I could get away with it, I'd use a CDC
6000-series PPU program called O26 (that's oh, not zero) that ran on the
operator's console to create source code. One could always send the
source file to the card punch. A hideous waste of resources; using a
dedicated system to create source--feeding the keypunch with $20 bills
instead of cards would likely have been more economical..
Cheers,
Chuck