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My first job as an undergraduate was keypunch operator (machine language code came through once in a while; that was a challenge to enter and proofread!). I walked into the mainframe room at the university–40 degrees, a billion miles of cable under the floor, and racks and racks of magnetic tape–and I was fascinated. But what really hooked me was chatting via teletype with the other operators late at night. Our greatest nightmare was to drop a box of cards and have to reassemble them to load in the hopper. I was the first person at our university to take qualifying exams on a computer (an Osborne!), and the second to do a dissertation on a wordprocessor. You are quite right–we have come a long way in the last 25 years.
You have explained this well, Have you been working on this a long time?? Do you think you have described everything correctly though I have noticed some common mistakes but I get the point your making? I will link your blog to mine.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
My first job as an undergraduate was keypunch operator (machine language code came through once in a while; that was a challenge to enter and proofread!). I walked into the mainframe room at the university–40 degrees, a billion miles of cable under the floor, and racks and racks of magnetic tape–and I was fascinated. But what really hooked me was chatting via teletype with the other operators late at night. Our greatest nightmare was to drop a box of cards and have to reassemble them to load in the hopper. I was the first person at our university to take qualifying exams on a computer (an Osborne!), and the second to do a dissertation on a wordprocessor. You are quite right–we have come a long way in the last 25 years.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
You have explained this well, Have you been working on this a long time?? Do you think you have described everything correctly though I have noticed some common mistakes but I get the point your making? I will link your blog to mine.