This link goes to an embedded version of document I posted earlier today. [More]That Scribd is pretty neat. Yeah, I know, the youngsters are slapping their foreheads at the fossil. Let me share with you what my high school graduation present from my parents was--a portable manual typewriter.
I have in my life coded assembly parts lists with a #2 pencil using 80 column forms--putting in part numbers, descriptions, quantities, subassembly nomenclatures, engineering changes notice numbers etc., and then taking the batched forms down to a department called "Keypunch."
Like we used to say at the end of the shift as we slid down the brontosarus neck: "Yabba-dabba-doo!"
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Dang, you're old... :)
ReplyDeleteWe used to have to take our Cobol programs down to the card reader in school; God forbid you dropped the stack o' cards and got them out of order...
We actually had an Apple I on a piece of plywood.