What does AE911T plan to do with data on WTC 7?

tsig said:
I wrote my first program on punch cards. By wrote I mean sitting in front of a punch card writer and typing out the cards one line at a time. It compiled without error but didn't run because I forgot to put a run command on the last card.

Yes, it was uphill, against the wind thru three feet of snow both ways to school.:)
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Did you also have to dodge the T.Rex that my friends and I had to?
 
jaydeehess said:
Did you also have to dodge the T.Rex that my friends and I had to?
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What...................those ugly tadpole looking things crawling out of the water?

I once made this great looking naked girl. It took hundreds of cards and covered 10 sheets of paper on the tractor printer. Somehow I screwed up the sequence after the first run. I went into general contracting/construction. The rest is history.

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It was the era of line printers which operated on 'type chain and electro-mechanical hammers'. Our computer people had a collection of 'printing' programs written so that there was musical pitch to the noise of the line printer mechanism. Played Christmas tunes, Happy Birthday and such....

....wasted miles of paper. :)
 
Dave Rogers said:
..... Especially if you use GOTO statements. Which people probably did back then...
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Nuttin as 'high level' language as GOTO for me. Merely a pseudo symbolic assembler where you wrote 'B "xyz" ' - B for branch was the Op Code but the destination address 'xyz' was symbolic. Then the two pass assembler merely ran through one pass counting places to show the displacement of 'xyz' from start of memory and second pass changed 'xyz' to that displaced address. All in 'place in memory' absolute addresses.

Then came super sophistication - same thing only written in relocatable form where all the addresses were offsets from start of code block load point and were incremented by the actual load point start address on link loading. Still one mass of linear spaghetti code. I recall my confusion when confronted by a PDP8 and multiple subroutines triggered by 'interrupts' and dominated by 128 word pages with 'near' and 'far' call distinctions. And a paper tape loading mechanism which took IIRC about 25 minutes then said 'CheckSum Error'.....
 
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Hello, World.



Yeah, the Kid's still got m@d ski11z...
 
Hopefully it ends in a Richard Gere type scenario and an embarrassing trip to the ER. :D
 
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