Re: Parameter prototype question

Well I'm practically a newbie then. I only started on a machine with
terminals. But I did have to feed the spooled tapes into the reel-to-reel
machine with the vacuum that would 'help' to suck in the end of the tape.

"And we had to walk 20 miles to school! Up hill! Both ways!"

Luxury! I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour
before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours
a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when
we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our
graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe
you.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

We're talking punched cards here, where cut & paste were physical actions.
You saw your program one line (spelled c-a-r-d) at a time. That's if you
had the luxury to have an interpreter on the card punch. Forget cut and
paste; there was no SEU. No backspace. No copy. No browse. No replace.

And we had to walk 20 miles to school! Up hill! Both ways!