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 autolearn=ham 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: 2002-04-02 04:40:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!newstransit.mitre.org!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "George Lafortune" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Ada on punched cards? X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:38:18 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.125.81.241 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1017751116 138.125.81.241 (Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:38:36 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:38:36 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21990 Date: 2002-04-02T07:38:18+01:00 List-Id: In the early 90's, I actually wrote a punch card reader device driver that was a combination of Ada and assembly code. It was fun interpreting status bits such as "hopper stuck". Stephen Leake wrote in message ... >Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever written an Ada program on >punched cards? > >And if you have to ask "what's a punched card", you don't want to know >:). > >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! > >-- >-- Stephe