Let's Have a Funny Pic Thread! Mk IX
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bsman
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I may be the only person in the US who has never shopped at a Walmart...
Modern Saint
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mikesr1963
Gonna walk my dog, you?
Remember the disks before the one pictured? Those were the actual floppy disks as they bent very easy. The one in the picture, not so much.
shoeless
Riffin'
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Modern Saint
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Sadly I remember both the 8" and 5 1/4".
shoeless
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Same here. I always thought it was ironic that the 3 1/2" actually had more storage capacity than the 5 1/4". Go figure...
mongooz
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bwaaahaaahaaa.......
i WORKED on computers that stored the info on IBM punchcards......then we got the brand new giant reel to reel tape drives.
bwaaahaaahaaa.......
i WORKED on computers that stored the info on IBM punchcards......then we got the brand new giant reel to reel tape drives.
I learned to program in FORTRAN on punched cards. Interesting bit of trivia: FORTRAN only reads the first 72 characters of a line because characters 73 - 80 are reserved so that you can set your keypunch machine to punch auto-incrementing numbers (100, 200, etc) in those columns so that if you drop your card deck, you can just pop them in a card sorter, sort on those columns, and get your card deck back in proper order.
mongooz
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yea....we had fortran in college and cobol.....my computer professor told me not to bother with those languages, because they would be dead in 5 to 10 years.
he was right.
shoeless
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Likewise. We didn't have a card sorter in student lab in college though, dropping the stack was the start of a bad day.
I read where there are more lines of COBOL and FORTRAN in production today than all other computer languages put together. I don't know about COBOL, but I can tell you there is still a metric butt load of FORTRAN still out there running. I know for a fact that some of my old FORTRAN code from 30 years ago is still running today.
Modern Saint
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bwaaahaaahaaa.......
i WORKED on computers that stored the info on IBM punchcards......then we got the brand new giant reel to reel tape drives.
That is how we got our PM's in the hospital. We also had to fill out special forms to enter data into the mainframe which was in another building...go figure
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lol. I took Fortran in college too. I remember having to make punch cards with our programs and everything. It was still pretty common in 1988 when I took it. All the science nerd majors had to take 2 computer language classes.
My older brother is an engineer and he told me Fortran is still pretty common in manufacturing machines. I guess a lot of big industrial crap was built with Fortran controllers, and that stuff was built to last. He told me it is fun to freak out brand new engineers with his mad Fortran programming skills.
My older brother is an engineer and he told me Fortran is still pretty common in manufacturing machines. I guess a lot of big industrial crap was built with Fortran controllers, and that stuff was built to last. He told me it is fun to freak out brand new engineers with his mad Fortran programming skills.
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me either
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