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CGTIII wrote: »

... Apparently whowhatever was in there could only be let out during the next shift change, if ever. Perhaps a SWAT team was involved. I never witnessed it.)

Perhaps they're still in there.

https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=6cKhCfkZ_IXpZQ8t

aprazer402 wrote: »

Punched the data input cards using Fortran. For business classes in college. Waited patiently in another building for the printed out results, to finish my feasibility projects.

In college I had to wait 1 to 12 hours for an operator to run my COBOL 101 job, then go halfway across campus for the printout to see if it ran without error. Wash, rinse, repeat.
(Printouts at night, when I was usually coding, were slipped halfway under the door to the mainframe room(s). Apparently whowhatever was in there could only be let out during the next shift change, if ever. Perhaps a SWAT team was involved. I never witnessed it.)

muncybob wrote: »

When you recall writing a computer program on punch cards that would then be run on a computer so large it was housed in a room the size of a small gym and your instructor said one day everyone will be walking around with a computer in their pocket....and thinking I'll never live to be that old!

Punched the data input cards using Fortran. For business classes in college. Waited patiently in another building for the printed out results, to finish my feasibility projects.

When you recall writing a computer program on punch cards that would then be run on a computer so large it was housed in a room the size of a small gym and your instructor said one day everyone will be walking around with a computer in their pocket....and thinking I'll never live to be that old!

two from ASR

pitdogg2 wrote: »

OleBoot wrote: »

The ol'cat scan

Indeed. For a long time, the CAT scan was a primary tool in my hifi troubleshooting armamentarium.



radios, too...

THIS is a knife

Here we have, steamed baby spinach, buttered with salt and pepper. Grilled fillet dipped in Italian dressing and covered with beef tallow with each flip.