Punched cards!
That reminds me of my first attempt at computer programming.
Using pre-punched cards with a needle to poke out the required chads (as I
now know them to be called) to form each line of code.
Assembling the cards into a stack comprising a program.
Sending the class stacks off by mail to London where we (we are talking
high-school) had ~30 minutes of processor time per month on the ICL
mainframe run by Imperial College.
And getting the cards back ten days later with the printout of results.
Which in my case was "Syntax error line 10". And with a response time
measured in weeks, there was no time for version 0.2
:-(
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Johan Malmstrom
Sent: 02 March 2004 13:03
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Computer trivia, was Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 question
Den/At 04-03-02 10.28 skrev/wrote "Moose" <[olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx]>:
> Do you know the origin and original
> purpose of the original 8" floppies?
No... But I have used those beast. At my first employer we used them for
backing up our IBM S/38. I think it was about 4 or 6 boxes with 10 in each.
And well before that in school we hade them on the ABC 800 machines. But the
origin, well my guess would go to IBM as others have before me.
At my first employer we had a strange machine, called the puncher... I was
build for punching card and as far as I remember they had replaced the paper
card puncher with a disk drive for the 8-inch disk. So maybe the purpose is
that simple, replace punching cards.
/ Johan
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