maddmaxx ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #1 Posted June 15, 2019 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #2 Posted June 15, 2019 Where is your picture? :) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #3 Posted June 15, 2019 Yep, along with many other types of computer discs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted June 15, 2019 Share #4 Posted June 15, 2019 I thought this was going to be about Sheep Herder, Maxx and Me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #5 Posted June 15, 2019 33 minutes ago, Road Runner said: I thought this was going to be about Sheep Herder, Maxx and Me. That’s what I thought also! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted June 15, 2019 Share #6 Posted June 15, 2019 37 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: That’s what I thought also! You aren't that far behind! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #7 Posted June 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Road Runner said: You aren't that far behind! I am just a pup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #8 Posted June 15, 2019 8 hours ago, maddmaxx said: I wrote my first computer programs using one of those terminals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted June 15, 2019 Share #9 Posted June 15, 2019 gawd I hated those punch cards. Turn it in, wait for a couple hours....blammo...there's a loop in the program. Go back & try again padwan or you could sneak over to the teletype and punch up your program. Instant analysis. #Winning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted June 16, 2019 Share #10 Posted June 16, 2019 Yep, we were still using electric typewriters and white out when I started working at Texas A&M in the mid-70s. Luckily I was able to hire a student that was a whiz with the computer and punch cards, and that was a life saver. Finally advanced to desktop computers in the mid-80s in Oregon. We used Leading Edge machines from Korea. I am really glad that folks presently do not have to go through hand writing manuscripts, then having drafts typed up, and then having to deal with rewrites on the typewriters during the editing phase. However, we went through a disconcerting phase in Oregon, before the secretary realized she had to resave the edited version, and we received versions that looked very much like the unedited version. This went on longer than it should, but finally stopped when it also happened to the 'boss'. Heck they did not have any pcs at Fort Keogh until I arrived in 1988. Yes I am old, but still remember some of the 'Good Ole Days'.? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tybeegb Posted June 16, 2019 Share #11 Posted June 16, 2019 5081 cards. We sorted and collated input decks from the keypunch group. Payroll input was almost 3000 cards. Some departments would send over mag tapes for their input for their reports. Then there was the punch tape input from a few remote sites. Then there were the disk drive banks. Big platters with a whopping 20mb capacity. Each application had its own platter we had to swap out and assign drive numbers to for each run. And the mountains of printouts that had to "de-carboned' and then 'burst' for distribution to the different departments. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted June 16, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted June 16, 2019 3 hours ago, tybeegb said: 5081 cards. We sorted and collated input decks from the keypunch group. Payroll input was almost 3000 cards. Some departments would send over mag tapes for their input for their reports. Then there was the punch tape input from a few remote sites. Then there were the disk drive banks. Big platters with a whopping 20mb capacity. Each application had its own platter we had to swap out and assign drive numbers to for each run. And the mountains of printouts that had to "de-carboned' and then 'burst' for distribution to the different departments. For the maintenance people there were hours of teletype cleaning and re oiling. You just had to see all the spinning gears and articulating arms moving like you worst nightmare of steampunk to understand that they were magic. We had giant versions of the platter disk drives with 12 flying heads that ran on an air cushion so close to the surface of the spinning platter that a bit of cigarette smoke would crash a head. That involved a physical strike of the head and platter surface that resulted in the destruction of the platter and usually all 12 heads as the dust created by the first crash would crash all the other heads in rapid sequence. We used punch card decks as technician programs and sometimes even had to load programs using the 16 bit front panel switches when the card reader wouldn't work. That was raw machine code work, not a compiler or user language in sight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted June 16, 2019 Share #13 Posted June 16, 2019 I thought it was strange that for a history time capsule for our country's next 175th or 200th birthday year, someone locally wanted to bury an iPhone, a memory stick. Seriously, will there be the right technology to even see the images in these things at that time in future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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