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[Wes Stewart]

I was already working for Hughes when they offered a Fortran course.  The terminals and printer were in Tucson but the mainframe was in California.  Our jobs were run after hours and we had to wait until the next morning for our printout to find the inevitable mistakes.

I was between wives so I started dating a keypunch girl and she punched and verified my cards, while the other guys had to do their own.  On the job training did have its rewards.

--- On Sun, 5/22/11, R. Kevin Stover <rkstover at mchsi.com> wrote:

> 
> Or walking 500 yards across campus from the engineering
> building to the
> admin building where the mainframe was located, to get the
> printed
> "output" of your latest attempt at FORTRAN greatness?
> 
> I really learned to hate the IBM 3270 terminal.sl.net/donate.html