When I started work Daisy Wheels were top of the range printers, we had one green screen vdu to share, we used to have to hand write our programs on Coding sheets, a punch card machine had just been decommissioned and was sitting in the corridor, people used to smoke at their desks, the internet did not exist and Apple was still a fruit.
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Ah yes, the good old days....
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Actually that would make a great advert.Originally posted by greenlake View PostAh yes, the good old days....
Indeed and the swearing & casual sexism. Plus the drinking at lunchtime.
Good thing we kept the incompetence & politics.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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When I was fourteen or so I decorated my bedroom at Christmas with streamers made of punched paper tape containing development versions of a load of matrix manipulation programs I'd written on the school's PDP-8/e
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Doing stats on one of these:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aDN4s8ElxqE/maxresdefault.jpg
Entering code on one of these:
http://www.bytecollector.com/images/asr-33_vcf_02.jpg
Writing in basic on one of these:
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/pet2001-black.jpg
Toggling bootstraps and writing FORTRAN IV/66 on one of these:
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/ga/large/spc16-1.jpg
Punching cards on one of these:
https://www.technikum29.de/shared/ph...univac1710.jpg
Verifying said card deck on one of these:
https://www.technikum29.de/shared/ph...ation-m200.jpg
Printing out Fairchild 4000 tester programs on one of these:
https://ub.fnwi.uva.nl/computermuseu...writer2201.gif
Punching mylar tape on one of these: (it's not the right one but similar):
http://www.cryptomuseum.com/telex/sa...2/001/full.jpg
Hard drives using 5440 cartridges:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tt8Jd97U-Z...0/IMG_1940.JPG
and these:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...sk_2009_G1.jpg
All of which being replaced with
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9-RyvZxKufo/hqdefault.jpg
and, alarmingly:
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...g-gwecv9vw.jpg
As you say, kids just wouldn't believe it.
One of the strangest things was the inability to read back punched tapes, so if one got damaged you were royally screwed if the source file didn't exist. Much typing would ensue of 60 character records that told the Fairchild 4000 tester what to test and how to test it.
This being a Fairchild 4000:
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And......Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWhen I was fourteen or so I decorated my bedroom at Christmas with streamers made of punched paper tape containing development versions of a load of matrix manipulation programs I'd written on the school's PDP-8/e
Look how far you have come
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....using primitive editing tools, no doubt....Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWhen I was fourteen or so I decorated my bedroom at Christmas with streamers made of punched paper tape containing development versions of a load of matrix manipulation programs I'd written on the school's PDP-8/e
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Taken!!!!!Originally posted by greenlake View Post....using primitive editing tools, no doubt....
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The old man is still a fruit.Comment
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