Gods, my first job we used DECwriters to boot a pdp rsx11. That had switchable 12" disks in solid cases, that if you breathed wrong while swapping over would lose data!

On 01/07/2020 09:40:50, Steve Burt <steve.and.mary.burt@...> wrote:

In my first software job, you had to write your code on paper forms with a pencil, and take it down to the punch card girls. It would then be turned into a card deck, run overnight and next morning you'd have a huge pile of paper on your desk because your program had core dumped. Rinse and repeat.

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 19:09, Carole Flint <molly.moggins@...> wrote:

When I first started working as a computer operator, in what was then called Data Processing, in the late 1970s the smaller IBM S/370 mainframes (the 115 and 125 models only, I think) had their IPL microcode on 12" floppy disks. You always needed to have a spare in case the one you usually IPLed from had a read error. There was a small cupboard thing under the CPU console printer where the floppy drive was located.

Carole

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