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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (92792)	2/26/2010 8:37:57 PM
From: stock bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

I wrote my first program in Fortran and had the gals punch the cards. Took the cards to the computer room and loaded them into the reader. Was I shocked when the program ran. Stock Bull

To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (92792)	2/26/2010 11:52:47 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 213177

I always thought paper tape was so much better than punch cards. Much more compact and nothing to get out of order. Also as it was reading in you could sometimes fix problems on the fly if you were very very fast and agile. Of course there was no hope if you were a spaz and stepped on the tape as it was feeding in...

To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (92792)	2/27/2010 2:55:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

OT: how fast the technology changes Science Fiction Future It's interesting which futuristic tech has been realized since science fiction writers started speculating. I was pretty sure I'd be vacationing on the moon by now. Not even close. As for 2001, HAL is not quite here yet, in some ways Clockwork Orange is more applicable. We are pretty close to Tricorders, universal translators, wrist communicators. We don't have flying cars, and few of us even have flying vehicles. I don't remember ever seeing a laptop computer in the movies until there were laptops. The future is hard to predict.