[Discussion] Old Programmers

[Krampetz at aol.com]

I hope there aren't many other old geezers that begin those
nostalgia stories.... ;-)     ..... like that desk  sized ,  punched paper 
tape input or keypunch keypad, with rotating drum memory w/32
256 byte sectors,  12 (or 14? instructions) one register and  either 
jump positive or jump negative, (not both - switch controlled),  octal 
or hex entry (switch controlled)..  
was it a  Link Precision General?  can't recall)
 
The old clunker (~1960ish donation to the school) was my intro to 
computers in 1966.  
Bob
 
 
In a message dated 4/30/2009 10:16:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rwonder at attglobal.net writes:

Esther

Read your article mentioned by Dave Yeo. Very good.  The only thing is 
you are not an old programmer ... there's some of us on  the POSSI list 
who were programming in the mid 50's long before you were  in the mid 
70's <smile>.

I learned to program on the bare  metal in binary/octal. Talk about hard 
coding -- pun intended. The machine  instruction codes and addresses were 
hard coded. No symbolic names.  I still remember some of the octal 
instruction codes.

Bob  Wonderly

Dave Yeo wrote:

> 
> Speaking of Esther,  perhaps this article is more on topic?
>  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
>  articleId=9132061
>  Dave
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