Nostalgia
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Mar 10 22:37:14 CST 2003
Damn we got some old dudes in the LUG!
I didn't know computers used to have card readers!
Is that where Microsoft stole the solitaire program from?
And why do you want to sort a deck of playing cards?
Isn't the whole point to shuffle them?
And what do airport terminals have to do with computers?
What's a patch board? And how does one virtualize it?
;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org]
...
> I did Cobol, Assembler and RPGII at Penn Valley in '91 or '92,
> and the RPG stuff
> was all on cards, but the Assembler was on terminals. I
> don't think they had
> any outside access back then. Since RPG is basically just a
> card sorting
> program, virtualising the old patch boards for the sorters,
> it makes a lot of
> sense on cards. System390 Assmebler really rocks! It's one
> of the reasons I
> never had the patience to learn programming on the PC.
>
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