ErnieW
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 4, 2020 22:30:56 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Dec 5, 2020 1:35:24 GMT -8
I still have a stack of these in my keepsakes...and I consider them "new" Yeah, baby! Fortran77 with punch cards!
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Post by reuben on Dec 5, 2020 1:38:06 GMT -8
Yeah, when you've experienced over 40 years of adulthood, you're old. Fortunately it's not the same kind of old my grandparents were at this age. According to the calendar I've experienced 40 years of adulthood. Measuring on the mental maturity scale, however, shows that I was a "late bloomer", shall we say, and possibly still a bit lacking.
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Post by autumnmist on Dec 5, 2020 10:13:19 GMT -8
I remember when those punch cards were used in crafting. My father spray painted them red and made a holiday wreath for me. I still have it.
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Post by autumnmist on Dec 5, 2020 10:27:15 GMT -8
desert dweller, this is a great thread, and I thank you for creating it. I've posted on another forum, of people who are either burned out or heading there after caring for elderly and dying loved ones. The responses show they're redirecting thoughts away from the gloom and doom to positive memories. You can know that you've contributed to helping people you don't even know to having positive thoughts as opposed to anxiety and worry.
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Post by desert dweller on Dec 5, 2020 10:31:11 GMT -8
Yeah, baby! Fortran77 with punch cards! When I got out of the Army and started community college in 1981 I took a Fortran class where we learned how to punch cards. It was taught by an Engineer who worked at IBM when they had a plant in Tucson. He said that everything he was teaching would be obsolete in a few years. Man, was he right. Funny that the class satisfied a language requirement.
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Post by paula53 on Dec 5, 2020 11:50:12 GMT -8
I recognize most of the items posted. I may be old, but I refuse to grow up!
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Post by reuben on Dec 5, 2020 11:52:57 GMT -8
I recognize most of the items posted. I may be old, but I refuse to grow up! You're still eating ice cream cones, so I think you're doing fine.
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Post by autumnmist on Dec 5, 2020 12:24:33 GMT -8
Something else I just remembered, but isn't included in the list. If it was, it would just show a piece of string: Cat's cradles. I found some instructions (imagine having to rely on instructions for something I did naturally decades ago!) and plan to play with some string to revert to childhood, at least in my mind.
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 5, 2020 13:06:12 GMT -8
Yeah, baby! Fortran77 with punch cards! I took a semester in Fortran when I was in forestry school around 1979. Drove me nuts. Punching one card wrong resulted in a small research project to find the error. Smarter people took Cobalt.
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Post by reuben on Dec 5, 2020 13:19:45 GMT -8
Cobol.
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 5, 2020 13:31:43 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Dec 5, 2020 13:47:04 GMT -8
I hate it when speelchek changes what I type. Years ago I was writing a technical email and a word I can't remember now was changed to "contusion". I didn't notice and hit the Send button.
It made for an interesting read.
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 5, 2020 14:24:26 GMT -8
Something else I just remembered, but isn't included in the list. If it was, it would just show a piece of string: Cat's cradles. I found some instructions (imagine having to rely on instructions for something I did naturally decades ago!) and plan to play with some string to revert to childhood, at least in my mind. My family used to do those a lot on vacation. My dad had a lot of different versions memorized.
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Post by gabby on Dec 5, 2020 14:51:12 GMT -8
Actually ... Ahem! It's "COBOL". It's not a name, but an acronym, standing for "common business-oriented language". "Fortran", OTOH, is a portmanteau, from "Formula Translation". (I could go on and on and on, but ... even I was amused when I learned that "APL" - an actual programming language, little used because it was, in the "languages" class I took, called a "write once" language because, after coding it, you couldn't easily figure out what the code you just wrote actually did - so you always had to write the entire program over again. Needless to say, it didn't catch on outside of academia. APL = "A Programming Language", which simplicity of title is entirely misleading.) This morning I had a similar discussion with the wife and daughter about BiC lighters, when we were trying to add one to the shopping list. (We've been using the fireplace more in the last couple of weeks.) Turns out that that stylized name, for both lighters and pens, comes from the name of the founder, one Marcel Bich, of the firm in Clichy, France. (I know, I know: yet another "factoid" no one needs to know for any earthly reason.)
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