[Elecraft] K3 Updates - old computer nerds never die .... OT

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Yep, Univac here and seq numbers in 10s in the 73-80 column - the reason
Fortran only used cols 1-72!


On 05/03/2008 21:37, "w6jd at comcast.net" <w6jd at comcast.net> sent:

> 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 
>> 
>>> 
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