When I was doing my dissertation research in the late 60's, I too used the 80-column punch cards on an IBM 360. I was doing a lot of stepwise multiple regression, but I remember dropping my cards into the hopper and walking over to the printer just as my output was being spooled out. I finished up my research where I took my first teaching job, which only had an IBM 1130. I was still doing some final runs and dropped my cards into the hopper and walked over to the printer to catch my output.
Nothing...
I told the systems tech that the system crashed and I didn't get my printout. He glanced over at the main console and said: "Everything's fine...it's thinking...
Jack, W8TEE
On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 5:04:15 PM EDT, gw0div@... via Groups.Io <gw0div@...> wrote:
Ah!! The days of the DEC 20/60 and VAX11/740 with IBM 29 card punches!! And the joy of COBOL!
