tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post2717507562080933546..comments2024-03-28T11:07:52.205-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Chris had a post onFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-87994851185064867162010-01-04T18:19:23.857-08:002010-01-04T18:19:23.857-08:00At that time the garage kept their inventory of pa...At that time the garage kept their inventory of parts on punch cards, and the guys in the computer room had to run the things and print it out once a week. I remember one time the stack slipped; I think the walls around the area darkened slightly from the heated language.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-15597879090824006082010-01-03T10:47:27.423-08:002010-01-03T10:47:27.423-08:00I don't know about ASR-28s, but the ASR-33s I ...I don't know about ASR-28s, but the ASR-33s I used in computer classes in the late 70s ran at 110 baud (which was 11 characters/second since as I recall they used the 10-bit Baudot code rather than ASCII). Our glass (dumb) terminals ran at 300 baud, except for the one or two 1200 baud terminals that the operators had.<br /><br />Any of the above were better than using the punch-card readers to put a program into the computer.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361125848729377343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-889196270086594172010-01-02T18:23:41.850-08:002010-01-02T18:23:41.850-08:00My first experience in programming, in 1980s compu...My first experience in programming, in 1980s computer class, involved a mathematics program on punch cards. God forbid they got dropped, as that was about a 2-inch thick stack. Made me excited as hell when my folks bought that super-modern Commodore 64 with the high-speed cassette tape memory.MauserMedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657229228172032650noreply@blogger.com