linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:12:40PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote:
> Ah, you youngsters had it easy!  I recall when I had to
> carefully check my syntax. Then I'd put the card deck into
> the collection box.  Once a week a courier came by to collect
> the decks and take them to the remote high school that had
> the computer.  The same courier returned the printouts of the
> previous week's jobs.  The pickup/dropoff only took a minute
> or two, so each syntax error that you didn't find added two
> weeks to the time before you got to actually debug the program.
> 
> (... and, it was uphill both ways with 10 feet of snow on
> the ground. :-)

I wonder how many forests each computer was responsible for clearing. :)
I sure hope they recycled those cards and printouts.

And yes I am quite happy I don't have to use toggle switches to load my
bits.

Lennart Sorensen
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