[Leica] noctilux factoid of the day

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I remember stoking up on stimulants as project time neared in  
programming courses. We'd go camp at the comp center (Basement of  
Phillips Hall), typing multiple versions of the same routine, and  
racing back and forth to the desk to submit them to the 360 at 2-4  
a.m. for the quick turnaround on the job.

Ah, to be younger and dumber;^)

ric


On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> The problem with computers at the University in the early 60's was  
> that you wrote your program, produced your stack of punch cards,  
> took them to the computing department, left therm overnight, and  
> came back in the morning to a pile of paper that represented the  
> unresolved loop you accidently wrote into your progaram. Debug, and  
> do the whole thing again. It could easily take a week to produce a  
> single functional short program. With a slide rule and mechanical  
> calculator you were usually way ahead.