Real Old School Programming

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/31/2005 at 3:02 PM Jim Leonard wrote:

>I have to ask all of the oldtimers here "fortunate" enough to have 
>worked with punch-card systems:  Even with rose-colored nostalgia 
>glasses at full intensity, would you ever in your life wish for a time 
>you could go *back* to *punch cards*?

No way.  Way back when, if I could get away with it, I'd use a CDC
6000-series PPU program called O26 (that's oh, not zero) that ran on the
operator's console to create source code.    One could always send the
source file to the card punch.  A hideous waste of resources; using a
dedicated system to create source--feeding the keypunch with $20 bills
instead of cards would likely have been more economical..

Cheers,
Chuck