fasty
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Post by fasty on Sept 9, 2015 16:08:59 GMT
It used to be, but some folks had a faint hope Fortran Computing might by now have discovered the SORT facility in some modern programming languages. 8>. You are old enough to remember FORTRAN ? How about Commercial Fortran ? Oh yes. I used FORTRAN at university. My mother said that the punch cards were great to re-purpose for shopping lists, but "...could I get them without the annoying holes in..."
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Post by Steerpike on Sept 9, 2015 16:45:57 GMT
It used to be, but some folks had a faint hope Fortran Computing might by now have discovered the SORT facility in some modern programming languages. 8>. You are old enough to remember FORTRAN ? How about Commercial Fortran ? High level stuff eh? I remember that new fangled stuff coming in to replace autocode, nothing like as efficient of course.
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Post by grahamg on Sept 9, 2015 17:09:28 GMT
You are old enough to remember FORTRAN ? How about Commercial Fortran ? High level stuff eh? I remember that new fangled stuff coming in to replace autocode, nothing like as efficient of course. Oh yes high level stuff, punched cards paper tape and computers with maybe 32 Kilo bytes of memory
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Post by blender on Sept 9, 2015 17:28:04 GMT
And the old jokes that went with the technology. Like the non-technical person who had been given the job of finding the mass of every component on a rocket ship to the moon, and asked to weigh the software on which so much had been spent and which would be in the rocket. After some discussion with the techies he found that the software was stored in some paper tape and decided to find the mass of the paper tape, to represent the mass of the software. That is, until he was told that the software was only the holes in the tape.
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Post by goldservice on Sept 9, 2015 17:58:38 GMT
As you hunched over the Teletype, there was a lovely smell of warm oil and metal ...
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Post by alison on Sept 9, 2015 18:16:20 GMT
High level stuff eh? I remember that new fangled stuff coming in to replace autocode, nothing like as efficient of course. Oh yes high level stuff, punched cards paper tape and computers with maybe 32 Kilo bytes of memory Or 16k on an IBM 360 using Assembler and then COBOL. And even better, 8k on an IBM 360!! The kids of today don't know how well off they are!!
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Sept 9, 2015 18:35:37 GMT
I've said it before, but still, 'Please don't kick the mercury delay line' 8>.
I just barely saw that, but I saw lots of 5-track paper tape (friden flexowriter .. google is your friend).
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Post by registerme on Sept 9, 2015 19:26:59 GMT
And the old jokes that went with the technology. Like the non-technical person who had been given the job of finding the mass of every component on a rocket ship to the moon, and asked to weigh the software on which so much had been spent and which would be in the rocket. After some discussion with the techies he found that the software was stored in some paper tape and decided to find the mass of the paper tape, to represent the mass of the software. That is, until he was told that the software was only the holes in the tape. Simpler just to ask them to go and buy a replacement spirit level bubble.... 
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Steerpike
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Post by Steerpike on Sept 9, 2015 20:32:17 GMT
High level stuff eh? I remember that new fangled stuff coming in to replace autocode, nothing like as efficient of course. Oh yes high level stuff, punched cards paper tape and computers with maybe 32 Kilo bytes of memory 32kB? You were lucky, we had to make do with 8kW! Mind you, words were proper 40bit words in them days. Peripherals consisted of paper tape in and paper tape out. Read, operate, normal, operate. Arf arf.
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Post by yorkshireman on Sept 10, 2015 0:13:50 GMT
Never mind all the technical jargon, you lot were lucky, none of the firms I worked for in the first 25 years of my career even had a computer yet things were made and delivered on time and stock records were accurate. 
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Post by adrianc on Sept 10, 2015 6:53:13 GMT
Yes, but even Yorkshire had to change when it became unacceptable to use hundreds of ten-year-olds down t'pit and up t'chimney, some time around 2005...
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Post by registerme on Sept 10, 2015 11:48:57 GMT
I just sold an A+ SME loan, with 49 months left on the clock, with a 6.6% buyer rate at par. I think I must have bought it at a hefty discount, but either way there are people making some odd buying decisions.
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Post by yorkshireman on Sept 10, 2015 11:56:22 GMT
Yes, but even Yorkshire had to change when it became unacceptable to use hundreds of ten-year-olds down t'pit and up t'chimney, some time around 2005... You’re getting confused with that place over the Pennines.
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Post by pepperpot on Sept 10, 2015 12:08:59 GMT
Yes, but even Yorkshire had to change when it became unacceptable to use hundreds of ten-year-olds down t'pit and up t'chimney, some time around 2005... You’re getting confused with that place over the Pennines. Nah, that was much earlier. Maybe even last century. Edit, I believe the practice still exists though in some parts of Merseyside!
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Post by jonno on Sept 10, 2015 12:21:29 GMT
You’re getting confused with that place over the Pennines. Nah, that was much earlier. Maybe even last century. Edit, I believe the practice still exists though in some parts of Merseyside! Eh? Say that again an' I'll kick yer 'ead in 
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