His secretary became an expert at reassembling stacks of punched cards when he dropped them.
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which is why one wrote a word with a magic marker on the side of the deck
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what kind of programs did your father made? I wonder what kind of complexity was feasible back then
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Physics simulations. I think nearly all the complexity was in the math.
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Before I had a computer, I wrote BASIC programs and gave them to a friend I saw once a week. He would tell me the result next week.
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Did he fix your bugs?
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So I gave him an updated version with some bug fixes I had found...but then he went on vacation and I never got the output. /2
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Yup. Critical programs were simulated - by hand and mind - to reduce debug time.
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in 1981 I selected my university on the basis they weren't big enough to get a mainframe with punched cards, just a PDP11 with VT52s.
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Used to write and debug C code on DMP printer sheets; then use 1 hr of PC time at my dads workplace. Ended up teaching folks there
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worked at a place where some some employees dated back to age of punch cards. They told of two week dev, two week compile cycles
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or maybe two week dev, two week test, may have been that
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Yeap, and the batch job on a million$ mainframe would take 2 days to produce the output of a $700 portable device today in 10ms
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even compiling a large production Java app could take 45 minutes in the early 2000's. I was certainly more diligent then.
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Remember in grad school: punching cards, taking to control window, waiting for print out, all while staying within assigned budget.
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This is fascinating. How many people worked in that industry back then?
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still today this is one of the most important metric. Time to fix/debug
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before terminals it was coding sheets passed to typists for paper tape or punch card encoding. I cut teeth at the end of the card era
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I would not have stayed sane. I can not level without debugger tools. Guess you would have to be confident in your code.
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