This does bring back memories of my college days, and my first few years working. We had large card files, kept in rows of card cabinets. Programming the drum card was fun. It allowed you do a lot of stuff like automatically duplicating parts of the card so that you could avoid manually repunching parts of the card.
I used this crap in 1969 for a Fortran Class. The professor agreed to pass me if I promised to seek other lines of endeavor. He said I'd never be a programmer. Now that I have worked 35+ years as a successful programmer, I wonder what he's doing these days?
It's very scary to see a comment by someone who never used these things.
By the way, the backspace was always the first thing to jam. Very frustrating, because it always happened when the Machine Problems were due the next day.
Even more fun can be had by watching a fast card reader go horribly wrong, and then it rains cards - all now out of order ;)
I never thought in my life I'd enjoy watching an instructional video. I'm in my 20's and had never seen or used one of these things. Thanks for posting your video tickled my curiosity!
Its amazing how far we've come in technology from the days of the punch card system
ranchai100 11 months ago
Holy crap im freakin out!
ccronn 1 year ago
I used cards for my RPG II programs.
jvolstad 1 year ago
I am sure some of these machines met thier demise by thier primary operators out of pure frustration, lol.
warsaw28 1 year ago
One fascinating fact the punched card was invented in 1725 to control mechanical looms.
It's use as a data storage medium was popularized by Herman Hollerith and his tabulating machine for the 1890 census.
Membrane556 1 year ago
This does bring back memories of my college days, and my first few years working. We had large card files, kept in rows of card cabinets. Programming the drum card was fun. It allowed you do a lot of stuff like automatically duplicating parts of the card so that you could avoid manually repunching parts of the card.
Thanks for posting this!
ice8m 1 year ago
I used this crap in 1969 for a Fortran Class. The professor agreed to pass me if I promised to seek other lines of endeavor. He said I'd never be a programmer. Now that I have worked 35+ years as a successful programmer, I wonder what he's doing these days?
Trollinista 1 year ago 7
Very educational video!
Computer education must include the use of such machines. How else can the student be introduced to the contemporary input / output devices?
georgiosmadonanakis 1 year ago
I used these in my Computer Programing Class in 1979 @ Idaho State University! Thanks for posting this video!
Dmmac 1 year ago
amazing
wzuoadjusted 1 year ago
It's very scary to see a comment by someone who never used these things.
By the way, the backspace was always the first thing to jam. Very frustrating, because it always happened when the Machine Problems were due the next day.
Even more fun can be had by watching a fast card reader go horribly wrong, and then it rains cards - all now out of order ;)
dcd1e 1 year ago
We use to start our CICS system off cards, i remember these well
rtfordy 1 year ago
I enjoyed watching this. It's interesting seeing how things used to be done.
fordude60 2 years ago
great video.
kcprawal 2 years ago
I never thought in my life I'd enjoy watching an instructional video. I'm in my 20's and had never seen or used one of these things. Thanks for posting your video tickled my curiosity!
zachattackoorah 2 years ago 16