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To: Larry Voyles who wrote (2111)	11/18/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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)

To: Larry Voyles who wrote (2111)	11/18/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

Ahh, the good old days—men were men, June Cleaver wore a dress whilst hoovering, and 'puters were big as houses...(hey Larry, is that you in there:) magneticdiary.com

To: Larry Voyles who wrote (2111)	11/19/1998 7:45:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

Good ole priority 10 and keypuch and cards, remember that (first year computer science only, second year we got TERMINALS). Spend an hour typing out cards, 20 minutes putting them back in order after dumping them all on the floor, and then 2-3 hours waiting for the output to see if the program could count from 1 to 10. The wait was usually due to the moron who's job in front of yours was counting to infinity. What are you guys doing here anyway? You moved this thread to the hot list and April 1 is several months away.