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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/18 18:41:13
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/18 18:41:35
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2016/04/18 19:08:05
I'm not bearded or beaded though.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/18 18:59:25
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You used to be able to make popcorn from the heat of a disk pack (and a good programmer could tell what program was compiling by the acceleration of the popping!). 
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bitman
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/18 23:59:45
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You said disk pack.
I like that.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 00:54:39
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Yep. That's what they were. And HOT mo-fo's they were too!
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 05:24:05
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I used to be able to tell if a program was running correctly by the pattern of lights (neon push-indicators) flickering. Of course these were highly repetitive routines (continuous gravity vector calcs), not like somebody listening to mp3s or running a word processing application. 
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 09:13:14
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I remember seeing a guy on TV years ago who could, with ear plugs in, tell what Beatles track was playing by the motion of a candle flame in front of the speakers. Same sort of thing.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 12:13:28
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/04/19 12:39:53
Remember the 1999 joke going around about the impending Y2K "crisis"?
A programmer was so fed up with the mess that he had himself cryogenically frozen so he could sleep through the whole Y2K thing. Like Philip J. Fry, he wakes up a thousand years later. "Welcome to the 31st century", he hears. "As you know, the year 3000 is coming up and we understand you have some COBOL experience..."
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 15:05:48
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I cut my teeth on BASIC and COBOL. A HUGE factor in coding back then was how much resource a program took. Anyone could write code...but if you didn't want to wait a half hour or more for it to complete, or even bring down the system, you had to code smart. I remember a complex business program I wrote that even using every trick I knew, I didn't dare run on a full set of data for about 4 or 5 years....The system had to catch up with me.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/19 16:47:30
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BobF
I used to be able to tell if a program was running correctly by the pattern of lights (neon push-indicators) flickering. Of course these were highly repetitive routines (continuous gravity vector calcs), not like somebody listening to mp3s or running a word processing application.
Looks like an Ampeg.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
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Better qualify that further...did you forget to append "matter" or "hair"?
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Re: Throwing a bone to the gray beaded coders in here.
2016/04/21 00:12:23
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At the end of every assembler line can be a continuation character that isn't seen except on a printout. I used to hide Shakespeare quotes in my programs tweaked to use the names of people that may see the printouts.
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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
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PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
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PROCEDURE DIVISION.
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10-MAIN.
PRINT "Hello World!"
20-END.
STOP RUN.
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