6 Mar
2021
6 Mar
'21
9:06 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
I am currently reading "Memoirs of a Computer
Pioneer" by Maurice
Wilkes, MIT press. The following text from p. 145 may amuse readers.
[...]
You were lucky! Back in my Uni days (punched cards on the 029) we only
had the overnight batch run on the 360/50, so we quickly learned to code
properly lest the output be returned with the dreaded "syntax error".
-- Dave