Re: New Pico2

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:27:53 +0100
Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:

I suppose you'll now tell us about the joys of using punched cards.

Well I could - and mention the joys of using a card saw to unblock
the 1442.

I don't envy you the joys of sorting a pile of punched cards that's
been dropped on the floor ...

If you prepared the cards with sequence numbers in columns 73-80
then you just dropped them into a sorter (if the site had a sorter) -
otherwise it was less easy. It's the paper tape that someone trod on while
you were feeding it into the spooler that was less fun.

No I do not miss those days, nor the overflowing box of waste paper
beside the printer under the notice ...

TOWARDS THE
PAPERLESS
  OFFICE

That adorned one place where I worked on developing machines with
64K and twin floppies.

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