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abucci
anthony.buc.ci
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Punch Card Programming - Computerphile - YouTube

Absolutely fascinating.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@abucci Absolutely. I can't imagine programming like that today. So the first syntax error will be discovered tomorrow. Lots more to come until the weekend. Maybe another retro challenge month for @movq. :-D
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Wahaha. :-)

Reminds me of a story about my favorite math teacher (as told by my other favorite math teacher – hm, not sure, did I ever not like one of those guys?): This wasn’t punch card programming anymore, but “personal computers” were no where near, let alone fast ones, so they had to book time on the big computer at the university. The dude wrote his program, submitted it, it ran over the weekend. When he checked on monday, the results were printed and ready to collect: Heaps and heaps of paper, all sheets showing hundreds of “0”. :-) He was henceforth known as „die Supernull“. <3
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Wahaha. :-)

Reminds me of a story about my favorite math teacher (as told by my other favorite math teacher – hm, not sure, did I ever not like one of those guys?): This wasn’t punch card programming anymore, but “personal computers” were no where near, let alone fast ones, so they had to book time on the big computer at the university. The dude wrote his program, submitted it, it ran over the weekend. When he checked on monday, the results were printed and ready to collect: Heaps and heaps of paper, all sheets showing hundreds of “0”. :-) He was henceforth known as „die Supernull“. <3
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Wahaha. :-)

Reminds me of a story about my favorite math teacher (as told by my other favorite math teacher – hm, not sure, did I ever not like one of those guys?): This wasn’t punch card programming anymore, but “personal computers” were no where near, let alone fast ones, so they had to book time on the big computer at the university. The dude wrote his program, submitted it, it ran over the weekend. When he checked on monday, the results were printed and ready to collect: Heaps and heaps of paper, all sheets showing hundreds of “0”. :-) He was henceforth known as „die Supernull“. <3
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Hahahaha, very nice story! :-D