I was an operator of an IBM 370/135 in the early 70s, in the City (of
London). The programmers used punched cards to run programmes on that
beast.
Chris
On 2 Mar 2004, at 13:20, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> 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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