Some IT nostalgia ... and how Orly Airport runs Windows 3.1

[RooFlyer]

Interesting read - but its the first comment that brought memories flooding back ...

 

[OATEK]

"but its the first comment that brought memories flooding back ..."

For me its the 80 column punch card that is nostalgic. Back when I was doing a Cobol component at TAFE in the 70s, access to the punch card machines to type in your code from the data sheet was very problematic for those of us who worked. I remember rushing to cut my cards one night, only to find I had stuffed a few up. So I got out the trusty scalpel and cut a few replacement cards on my breadboard at home to make my small routine run correctly. Don't know what happened to my little stock of blank cards!

 

[RooFlyer]

My own first memory of an IT experience was at Uni in the early '80s. The Uni ran a Burroughs mainframe and a couple of us used to wander across to the building where the 'public' terminals were to do exciting things like plot probability distribution charts. Very flash.

We just dumbly followed the laminated instruction cards. One day, one of the staff had been in the terminal room and left some cards behind. One of them concerned the routine "DUMP BURROUGHS". We were tempted.

 

[OATEK]

My own first memory of an IT experience was at Uni in the early '80s. The Uni ran a Burroughs mainframe and a couple of us used to wander across to the building where the 'public' terminals were to do exciting things like plot probability distribution charts. Very flash.

We just dumbly followed the laminated instruction cards. One day, one of the staff had been in the terminal room and left some cards behind. One of them concerned the routine "DUMP BURROUGHS". We were tempted.

I was once allowed to run rm -r on a UNIX server - felt drunk with the power of it!

 

[clazman]

I was once allowed to run rm -r on a UNIX server - felt drunk with the power of it!

the power ......