It were reet grand in't owd days

[Michael Foy]

paper tape, yoo were lucky, we used to dream of paper tape, well actually
punched card was much better than paper tape, I have a couple of old hand
card punches at home, hoping that one day they will be worth some money :-)

being able to read paper tape or punched cards is a lost art, I still get
looks at people at work  when I tell them the ascii code for a letter
without looking it up, the youth of today.....

1975 teletype clunkers and a remote acoustic coupled pdp something at the OU
,ally pally, newcastle or bletchly.

I quite agree with a nice (free) day of revolution learning, I can make
Londo no trouble :-)


miock


----- Original Message -----
From: Glasgow, David <David.Glasgow at cstone-tr.nwest.nhs.uk>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: It were reet grand in't owd days


>
>
> Ian Summerfield wrote
> <Someone on the list implied they were teaching programming?  When I
started
> out we first started learning binary before even touching a system,  then
> base 8, 16, etc.   Then we could understand how a computer stored values,
> we also understood the precision problems with representing floating point
> numbers,  this was all done before being allowed to touch a system!   Mind
> you, maybe times have changed now seeing as there's so much more to learn.
> I started learning at age 14 on a DEC PDP 10>
>
>
> Apologies in advance for a frivolous post, but  this made me smile.  It
reminded me that in 1972 I took a 'computer studies' exam.  I also had to
calculate in different bases, but  part of the exam was of much more
ephemeral value - reading a piece of paper tape.  My bit said Marilyn Monroe
(or is it Munro like the hills?).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David Glasgow
>
> Courses HTTP://www.i-Psych.co.uk
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