From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.120.232 with SMTP id p68mr10981907yhh.43.1376324237622; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:17:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.70.138 with SMTP id m10mr634876qeu.9.1376324237593; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!f7no2036889qan.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni1415qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no2134478qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:17:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.59.203.108; posting-account=7Oy7OQoAAABhVYFOo553Cn1-AaU-bSfl NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.59.203.108 References: <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <981741794397689133.903473yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0d5d3b5d-0d4a-4851-b55c-34e5ce62cd48@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada? From: Eryndlia Mavourneen Injection-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:17:17 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2347 X-Original-Bytes: 2596 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182979 Date: 2013-08-12T09:17:17-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, August 11, 2013 3:10:03 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote: > Mike H writes: >=20 > . . . they don't make 'em > > like that any more ;-) I cut my programming teeth on one of those and > > have memories of being knee-deep in 5-channel punched paper tape ;-( > . . . I only had one bout with paper tape, and that was when I was a student at t= he University of Tennessee. The Physics Department had some old CDC machin= e with mag tapes. The paper tape, as I recall, was the only boot device th= at was usable. I ended up writing an assembler using SPITBOL on the University's IBM 360, = which wrote a magnetic tape of the assembled program. I then hand-carried = that back to the Molecular Spectroscopy Lab and used a DEC PDP-11/20 (16K o= f 16-bit words of main storage) to punch the program to paper tape. Then I= could boot the program from the paper tape onto the CDC machine. You can = imagine my surprise, when the paper tape was read without error and the CDC= booted! LOL -- Eryndlia (KK1T)