Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.

[David Morrison - Corporate]

Bob,

If you made fewer mistakes on punched cards, it's because you were typing real slowly, because of the penalty if you goofed up.   I recall that my favorite key was the DUP key, where you'd DUPlicate one card to another by holding down that key while  the punches were copied from one column to the next until you reached the column where you needed to fix your error. I can't remember if you could insert a missing character and then DUPlicate from there to the end, or not.

Hey, I also remember getting 2 compiles per day; submit the card deck in the morning, get the results back about noon, fix my typoes and/or mistakes, submit it again, and have the results by the next morning!

David Morrison
McBride Electric

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Deskin, Bob
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:13 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.


Hey, I figure I can still code a mean COBOL program. By the way, it
should be spelled in uppercase since it's an acronym for COmmon Business
Oriented Language. And I'm not THAT old. Mind you, I never learned how
to touch type or keyboard as it's called now. My son puts me to shame.
On the other hand, I made fewer mistakes with those punched cards :-)

Bob

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
Sent: April 22, 2005 3:59 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.


ARGGGGG COBOL. Haven't used that since my first year
of professional programming....back in 1986.

As for your typing teacher...mine looked like an old battle-axe. Hence I
took auto mechanics instead. Maybe if yours was at my school I would
have taken it...definately would have learned to type without looking at
the keys...watching her instead.

I thought all the Cobol programmers died of with the Dinosaurs....lol



--- Guy Werry <guy.werry@hbms.ca> wrote:
> Two things come to mind:
> 
> 1) Isn't everyone on the list just shocked to the
> core by the revelation
> that a technical / programmer type person has a
> "personality disorder"???!!!
> 
> 2) REAL programmers can so type!  I learned to type
> in grade 10 in one of
> those situations that demonstrate that God really
> does have a sense of
> humour.  I signed up for typing only because I
> needed a credit and the
> (young) female teacher was one of the most gorgeous
> creatures I had ever
> seen!  She crushed my heart by getting married at
> Christmas, I scraped
> through with a "D" grade, but DID learn to
> touch-type!
> 
> Then, I got into programming.  REAL programming ...
> COBOL!  Still the
> language of the future!
> 
> Guy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Langendock
> [mailto:ken.langendock@rogers.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: Joe Boyle; Ken@Langendock.com;
> powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity
> disorder.
> 
> 
> I have never been known to be subtle....but this is
> was not a criticism on your code. As soon as you
> said
> Ghost screen, I didn't go any further.
> 
> As for your typing...no comment. LOL.
> 
> Being a REAL programmer...I can't type worth beans myself...actually I

> hate to type...go figure.
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