tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post7030566199253135897..comments2024-03-29T08:20:50.011-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: E-volutionLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-2605500989141176852013-07-04T06:20:25.009-04:002013-07-04T06:20:25.009-04:00Totally a different thing which put the face of pa...Totally a different thing which put the face of past things and new things both in technology.mobi ritzhttp://mobiritz.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-7020393650032381022012-07-18T14:58:05.693-04:002012-07-18T14:58:05.693-04:00Good-to-know article, Dale. Thanks for sharing.
Y...Good-to-know article, Dale. Thanks for sharing.<br /><br />You may have a few more degrees of non-separation. If I’m not mistaken, one of your SS colleagues, Mr Lundin, designed the software that allowed on-line programming. He was also mentor to and good friend of Jean-François Groff who partnered with Tim Berners-Lee, the team who brought us the World Wide Web… making the WWW a small world indeed.A Broad Abroadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-884041520888624812012-07-17T16:57:21.625-04:002012-07-17T16:57:21.625-04:00Boy does this bring back memories. I started my I...Boy does this bring back memories. I started my IBM career in the early seventies, right out of college, and I clearly remember wiring the "boards" R.T. referred to, as well as all those punched "5081" cards. I still have a stack of them that I use for notepaper in my desk drawer.<br /><br />To Leigh and Dale: Do y'all remember the skit Bob Newhart used to do--I think it was "A Call From Herman Hollerith"? (I bet it's on YouTube.) I once saw him do it on stage at an IBM conference in New York.<br /><br />Sometimes I suspect that the only way to fully appreciate high technology is to have lived though the days of low technology. But even then, it was fun.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-16240524843009842232012-07-17T16:42:15.494-04:002012-07-17T16:42:15.494-04:00I remember working on an IBM Mag card typewriter b...I remember working on an IBM Mag card typewriter back in the 70's (I was a legal secretary back then), which was as high tech as you could get in an office at the time.Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-67220879991799441852012-07-17T13:31:32.508-04:002012-07-17T13:31:32.508-04:00If I recall correctly, during the 1960's, data...If I recall correctly, during the 1960's, data processing machines had peg boards with different colored wires inserted into certain holes to program where the data from the punch cards went.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-45637140383049881012012-07-17T10:37:58.516-04:002012-07-17T10:37:58.516-04:00Dale, as Paul Harvey might say, that's the res...Dale, as Paul Harvey might say, that's the rest of the story, and I enjoyed it.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-46053819785504636092012-07-17T10:32:08.814-04:002012-07-17T10:32:08.814-04:00Rob -- One of the things about those cards was tha...Rob -- One of the things about those cards was that the first 6 columns were used only for sequential numbering, so that if the box was dropped (WHEN the box was dropped) you could the mess down to the computer room to be sorted. But invariably when program "fixes" were added the programmer would forget to add sequence numbers. So then when the deck was dropped and sorted all of those added cards would sort to the front since blanks sort before numbers. Then the programmer (read as ME) would be left sitting there at our (metal) desk trying to remember where those cards went.Dale Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553503281187956955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-64983465506448811942012-07-17T10:10:51.426-04:002012-07-17T10:10:51.426-04:00fascinating stuff, and thank you, Hey, how many o...fascinating stuff, and thank you, Hey, how many of us SS writers did or still do program computers for a living? <br /><br />Not me. but I do remeber those horrible punch cards ( which were invented for the Census, by the way, and were designed to be the same size of a dollar bill). Remember when someone would forget to put a weight on the end of the row and the cards would whoosh across the room? Ah, the good old days.Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.com