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Article #620703Re: Nostalgia
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:10
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:10
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Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> writes: >On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:35:34 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote: > >> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >>>On Tue, 2018-02-27, Peter Flass wrote: >>>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >>>... >>>>> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >>>>> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >>>>> 1980s.) >>>> >>>> Or a card reader in the '60s. >>> >>>That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when >>>tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, vi/Emacs, >>>troff ... >> >> Card readers were still being used into the 1980s, well after the >> creation of the programs you mention.... > >Indeed. We got rid of ours in 1983, to make room for a second CPU in thge >machine room (to dual with the first). We still had a few (300CPM tabletops) in the software lab at Burroughs until I left in 1989. But those were mostly used to test fixes to the older (including for a couple of customer B3500s still in production) MCP releases.
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