[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[TR]

Back in the Day... '70 I was doing FORTRAN at a community college.  The
computer was switched over to FORTRAN at 4pm.  But the COBOL was run for
anyone still in line at 4.  Unless the machine crashed then it was booted
into FORTRAN.   Of course all the COBOL people would get there are one
minute til 4.  Going to the head of the line because COBOL was still
running.   After the first time I was shut out of the computer I made a Lace
Card <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card> .  Not so extreme as to jam
the reader but enough to crash the COBOL interpreter.

So at 4 o'clock if there were still a line of people doing COBOL I'd strike
up a conversation with one and while they were distracted I'd cut in the
lace card into they deck.   After a few times of this the COBOL folks
stopped getting in late, so the FORTRAN could start at 4.

TR

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep.  Punch cards and paper tape at ASU (71-73).  Only punch cards at the
> UofA (73-74).  The UofA had RIOTs --- Remote input/output terminals - I
> think their "official" name was something else.  I don't remember either
> punch cards and paper tape at SJSU (77-78).  - Louis
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