Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote:
> On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
>
> > This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
> > teletypes with punched tape?
>
> Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did
> serious computing on the IBM704 at Risley in Lancashire. We would type
> the program onto paper tape and run it though a teletype to send it by
> phone to Risley. At their end they would punch it out and to check that
> it was ok they would send it back. At the Winfrith end we then had the
> original tape and a copy and we would hold these up to the light to
> check for errors. If there were none we'd phone Risley and say yes ok
> go ahead.  This was a communication protocol, yes? Later we installed a
> punched card system so we could put the program on cards and fly them
> to Risley by plane.
>
> Tony
I assume you never worked with the folded papertape used with the DEC 
PDP-8! coded in ASCII. Years before we used an  Electrologica X-1 with 
papertape coded in EBSDIC!You could edit the tapes with a manual punch 
and nontransparent sellotape. We thought punched cards were old-fashioned!.
Joep


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