[Elecraft] K3 Updates

w6jd at comcast.net w6jd at comcast.net
Wed Mar 5 16:37:17 EST 2008


But when you dropped that deck on the floor and became a
true beliver in sequence numbers!

One who cut his teeth on IBM-650s.

Doug, W6JD

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Bill W5WVO" <w5wvo at cybermesa.net> 

> G4ILO wrote: 
> 
> > not quite as bad as when I learned to program, when you had to get 
> > the code punched up on cards, then take the deck down to the computer 
> > room and put it in the "in" tray, then wait a couple of hours until 
> > they had time to run it. 
> 
> And then when you went back down to the computer to pick up your job, you find 
> out that some trifling typo in your input deck had caused the whole mainframe 
> to abort and do a core dump, and not only is your job not done, everybody down 
> there is livid at you. :-) Good luck getting them to run your next job at 
> all! Ah, the not-so-good old days... 
> 
> Bill W5WVO 
> 
> > 
> > ----- 
> > Julian, G4ILO K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392 
> > G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com 
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> 
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