Another of my altered computer disks. We called these floppy because the previous version was actually floppy, while these are not. Now we can't even get to the info on this. This one was dated 2000 and was the tech notes for a production of Hamlet that I stage managed.

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Comment by Edward on July 9, 2017 at 7:30pm

So, I just heard that some US nuclear launch protocols are loaded via floppy discs.

Here's a blurb:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/60-minutes-s...

And there's a link to a full story from 60-minutes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-minding-the-nuclear-weapons/

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on June 25, 2017 at 3:01am

It's amazing that there's been so much change in our life times. Crazy. I remember my son getting an Apple 2 C? or 2 E. I can't remember. It was small, I do remember that. He saved up money to buy it. All key strokes and code. He was in middle school. They were learning how to code even back then, he's 45 now. And whoosh, in a minute so it seems, we're holding a computer in our hands. Amazing. I always read sci-fi, even when I was in high school, which was not usual for a girl. I loved the future and now we're IN the future!

Comment by Bradford on June 24, 2017 at 6:38pm

Yeah, I was made a tutor in the class I was taking (FORTRAN).  A young, cute gal needed help.  She had what was supposed to be a single operation inside a loop, so her architecture was wrong.  In another case, someone typed/punched an "O" when they meant to punch "0" (zero).  Those were fun.  The annoying one was an old retired US Navy guy who would let me explain the beginning of something then interrupt with, "You see I was in the Navy for xxx years.  We didn't have anything like this.  You can't teach an old dog new tricks", which left me with nowhere to go, so I took his money just for being a therapist and listening to his stories.

More fun was the fact that in central Texas it gets rather hot and although the computer was in a new building, one day the A/C was having trouble keeping up.  The guy running the PDP mainframe was yelling on the phone so loud you could hear him outside the room, "If the temperature hits 80ºF (27ºC), I'm going to shut the whole computer down!"

Comment by Ruud Janssen on June 24, 2017 at 6:18am

lovely memories Val!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 24, 2017 at 6:09am

I remember this batch processing stuff. As a graduate student I got to run a batch every evening when there was not much demand for the mainframe computer. I had a batch of about 500 cards that I had keypunched myself. There were all sorts of problems with them -- some because of errors in the punching, others in the what I suppose was the programme (software?), yet others because cards were out of order. Every time there was an error, the whole batch would stop, and I would have to start again the next evening. it took about 3 weeks of trial and error before the whole batch would run and I would get some results.

Comment by Bradford on June 23, 2017 at 5:21pm

I went to a small college in Austin, TX where we had to run our programs in batches consisting of a card reader.  Of course, we had to use a keypunch to code/punch them and then place in the proper order, then wait for the results after running them on a Digital PDP11 computer.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on June 23, 2017 at 6:44am

the good old times.

In 1978 I was working with punchhole cards too.....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 23, 2017 at 6:15am

I can go back even further.....I have some (un)punched cards that I used at university circa 1968. One day I will do something with them...

Comment by Bradford on June 22, 2017 at 7:23pm

In a 1974 programming class I took in high school, I stored my programs on punched tape that could be read back into the teletype.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on June 21, 2017 at 6:31am

my work with floppies in 1995. I was collecting rubberstamps at that time with computers. was using cumouters a lot, and was using 5,25 inch floppy disks on a poem I made for an edition.

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