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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Fri Dec 4 14:43:12 2020, in response to Re: ibm's magnum opus, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Dec 4 14:27:33 2020. My first semester as a Computer Science major at USC (Fall 1976), we students used 029 keypunchs. They worked pretty well. I had some experience with the 029 a few years earlier at the University of Illinois. I attended University HS there, which was a laboratory HS affiliated with the U of I. It was across the street from the Digital Computing Lab (DCL), so we'd wander over there and print out some cards with weird shit on them and keep them (they were free). Once I got to USC, I found out you had to pay for punch cards! (Difference between a state University in a majorly blue state, and a private one). Oh well, it was just the one semester, by the Spring 1977 semester, they had installed a PDP-11 machine and instead of punch cards, we entered the programs on CRTs (VT-52) and stored them in our own directories, then compiled. We each had a PPN (I still remember mine [1401,7547] The first number indicated your group (1401 = Computer Science) and the last one was just a number assigned to you). Oh yeah, it was in Octal (Base 8). First semester we used PL/C (the student version of PL/I) Great language, but the compiler was huge (being a student processor, it would try to correct syntax erros if it could (usually incorrectly)). For the second semester and thereafter, we switched to PASCAL. PASCAL was OK, the main thing to remember was when to and when not to end a statement with a ";" PL/C, every statement had a ";", so pretty easy. |
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