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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a6b5ac66a4ad20e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-01 09:14:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!12.120.28.17!attla2!ip.att.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CA89548.8EF211B2@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada on punched cards? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:13:44 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1017681237 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:13:57 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:13:57 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21950 Date: 2002-04-01T12:13:44-05:00 List-Id: > Punched cards disappeared from the machines I had access to before > 1983, so I doubt it. But the topic came up recently, and I figured > that's a perfect question for this group! Where I worked in 1988-1994, we did have a punch card reader in use. But it was not used for Ada. I did not use it, but I _think_ it was not used for programming at all, but for processing cards that had parts and supply data punched into them. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau