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To: zonkie who wrote (2107)	11/18/1998 2:19:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

I took just one computer science class in college: Intro to Computers. That meant Fortran and Assembly Language on a Burroughs mainframe. I recall standing in line to use the key punch, punching, standing on line at the card reader, waiting for your printout to be called, and then doing the whole process over again when you found out you made a typo. Eventually they installed a few terminals but certain individuals would literally live at their workstations for days in order to finish a project. Sometimes you'd find them just zonked out and... hey, wait a minute... do I know you? (gg) - Jeff

To: zonkie who wrote (2107)	11/18/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Larry Voyles	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2770

I thought Ted was the only person around that was old enough to have used an 029. Remember the "Sht" lever on the right of the console? You would type in a few characters, realize you made a typo, exclaim "Sht!" and hit the lever to eject the card. I made very frequent use of that lever. The secretary was the only one at our campus that had one of those fancy keypunch machines with the one-line buffer so you could copy a card into the buffer, change a few characters and punch a new card. We were all just green with envy. She got to run jobs at a higher priority, too. All of us grunts were stuck with priority 10 for our compiles. They would make us grunts use pink JCL cards to keep us from monkeying with the JCL. Some code monkey got his hands on some pink punch cards and suddenly our compiles were finishing in minutes instead of days. Suspicion arose and we were soon discovered.