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steveTu · 16 March

Anyone having issues posting?

I had to remove @ targets in a post to get it to go through and it looks like Fairygirl had a similar issue - and I've just seen a post from Dove that appears to be an image post, but it just shows a black border and no image.

Dovefromabove · 16 March

It wasa huge image @steveTu … I’ve deleted it and replaced it with a cut and paste job.

steveTu · 16 March

OK - maybe it was a timing thing and there happened to be an issue at the server end at the same time. I got 4-5 'error' boxes when I hit post - so I removed the @ targets and just left the names, and tried again and the post went through - maybe that was a fluke and it would have gone through anyway.

amancalledgeorge · 16 March

The last days of Carthage 🤣

diggersjo · 16 March

@steveTu it's your IT hat causing the suspicion and conspiracy

steveTu · 16 March

@diggersjo

At least when I wrote software (and all software has bugs), I didn't try to make out to the customer that I was doing them a favour when I (eventually) got round to fixing them! Bugs are the writers problems, not the users. That's an old adage I found in a Christmas cracker.

I put this down to a glitch somewhere - maybe in my short stubby index fingers...

diggersjo · 16 March

Yeah and in my days you had to get past the punch-girls (what a name in this day and age) and the COBOL compiler. Oh and that was a 2-3 day wait at times....! We all have to move on.

steveTu · 16 March

@diggersjo

We had a manual card punch (12-1 A, 12-2 B.....0-3-8 was a comma...) and re-used the chads when you made one or two mistakes. Coding sheets eh? I still write in capitals and put slashes through zeros, circles around full stops, lines through sevens.... And debugging code from a core dump. Eee bah gum t'were different in those days....

Honeywell Bull - GE115 as the first machine (took up a room about 12' x 20') - 16k of memory, four tape drives, a paper tape reader (that used to shred the tape at a whim - which we then spliced with the missing bits), a card reader and a massive line printer (without ear guards)... used Tab3 as the programming language I think (and you could drop into some form of assembler for address modification for loops)...

Went through Tab, Basic (PDP-11/34), Cobol (TI and Univac), Assembler, Java, Neat3 , Tranpro, Informix (a language, not just a DB), Uniface, Java and Genero...

Wish you'd never mentioned it now eh?

diggersjo · 16 March

steveTu said:

@diggersjo
We had a manual card punch (12-1 A, 12-2 B.....0-3-8 was a comma...) and re-used the chads when you made one or two mistakes. Coding sheets eh? I still write in capitals and put slashes through zeros, circles around full stops, lines through sevens.... And debugging code from a core dump. Eee bah gum t'were different in those days....
Honeywell Bull - GE115 as the first machine (took up a room about 12' x 20') - 16k of memory, four tape drives, a paper tape reader (that used to shred the tape at a whim - which we then spliced with the missing bits), a card reader and a massive line printer (without ear guards)... used Tab3 as the programming language I think (and you could drop into some form of assembler for address modification for loops)...
Went through Tab, Basic (PDP-11/34), Cobol (TI and Univac), Assembler, Java, Neat3 , Tranpro, Informix (a language, not just a DB), Uniface, Java and Genero...

Wish you'd never mentioned it now eh?

I mention it because it tells us why we are here, and why it's worth moving over to GC

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