Looking for a defined path to learn Rev (for new users)

[stephen barncard]

Here's a nice one online:
http://www.kloth.net/services/cardpunch.php

This would be super-easy to do in Rev. 10 different ways.

we could do this in ON-REV if we could get access to some of the graphics
and stack stuff, like the templates.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2009/11/20 Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>

>
> Hi Francis,
>
> The way that you describe this task of early computer programming,
> it sounds like a mental and physical challenge.
>
> Did you know if there is some multimedia simulation of card
> punching programming, made with Flash, Director,
> Hypercard or Runrev?
>
> Alejandro
>
>
> Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> >
> > Hi from Paris,
> >
> > Stephen Barncard sent :
> >
> >> If one has ever had to work with punched cards
> >> (and I have not) genuinely
> >> deserves the title "hard core".
> >
> > Not only did I work with punched cards (and I think
> > there are more of you out there), but when the IBM026
> > and 029 card punches were not yet available, we used
> > the Hollerith key punch to punch our cards by hand.
> >
> > Thems were the good old days, when (if I remember
> > correctly, the left bracket was 12-0-1-8-9, that is
> > 5 holes in the same column. Needless to say, we often
> > made mistakes, but it took so long to punch a card, that
> > we used to stick the confetti back in the holes, and then
> > correct the cards. Obviously, after feeding the cards
> > through the reader, a few times, the wire brushes often
> > knocked out the confetti, and we got a "reader check".
> > Then we had to examine the card and decide what hole the
> > confetti had fallen out of !!
> >
> > And my VERY FIRST program on the IBM 1401 involved punching
> > up the whole program in machine code, including the bootstrap.
> > If you have never punched the command "Set character to word mark",
> > you have never really lived    .....     :>)
> >
> > Oh my God - Am I that old ?
> >
> > -Francis
> >
> > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time - but it often was !"
> >
>
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