We've come a long way!!!!

When I took Fortran in college, each line had to be typed on an individual punch card on a telo-type machine. You had to wait to get a machine.

You would place your 300 cards in cue to be sent to a central processor in mid-state. You would return several hours later to pick up your printout, and find you had a syntex error in the first card.

During mid terms I ran out of cards on the weekend, and searched frantically for someone that sold them. One response I got was "We don't carry punch cards or Buggy Whips anymore."

Still waiting for the day I can use Fortran in my life.


Edited by Jerryghr (09/14/14 07:42 AM)