Re: "Webulating" RPG

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>** Reply to note from therrin@isaac.net (Terry Herrin) Thu, 26 Feb 1998
>00:41:57 GMT
>
>
>> one question though.  What do you do when you have to make an
>> emergency change to QSTRUP from a dumb terminal in the computer room,
>> because QCMN isn't up yet?  <grin>
>
>Well, like all REAL programmers, I rip out the keyboard and tap the wires
>together shorting them in pulses which create the binary data stream that
>produces the object code formed in magnetic patterns directly on the disk
>drive. ;-)
>
>> Terry Herrin
>
>
>
>Chris Rehm
>Mr.AS400@ibm.net



One installation I worked at had a 'manual key punch.'  About the size of
half a notebook, it had detents for each column of an 80-column punch card
and another set for each row.  It could punch a single hole at a time.  You
could even type characters if you knew your Zones!

Of course, a -real- programmer could do the same thing with a razor blade
and a box of bandaids.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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