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To: Larry Voyles who wrote (2111)11/18/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: TEDennis  Read Replies (2) of 2770
 
Larry: Re: "I thought Ted was the only person around that was old enough to have used an 029."

I guess all you young punks missed out on the 026. We used to turn the heater vents off in the keypunch room because those things had huge vacuum tubes in them that generated a bunch of heat. Kept the room toasty warm. I'm sure we saved the company tons of money with our frugality.

I can still picture the scene where one of our more easily angered programmers came into the keypunch room with his entire box of punched cards (2,000 in a box) representing an Assembler program he'd been working on for several days. He stood there at the 029 and keypunched the same card about 5 times in a row. Each time he hit the "Sh*t" key. On the 6th attempt, he screamed loudly (scared the rest of us half to death!) picked up the box of cards, and flung it across the room where it hit the door with force. Cards went everywhere. He stomped out of the room and left work for the day. I happened to be working late that night (as usual) when he sheepishly returned to the room. He didn't say a word to me. He just started picking up the cards. There's no telling how long it took him to get his program back into sequence.

Ah, yes ... those were the good ol' days. Back when programmers were real men! We didn't have any of these sissified IDE's (Integrated Development Environments) that are so popular on PC's nowadays.

Nostalgically, speaking ... Did I mention how I used to walk 12 miles through the snow to get to school? Uphill? Both ways!

TED (#2112 ... a palindrome)
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