Re: Disassembler


"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1141137619.797762.312570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I worked in a place where an operator dropped a whole tray of punched
jcl cards (and successfully mixed them quicker than a poker dealer
could have done). No wonder we moved from ICCF to VM/CMS sharpish.

A friend of mine was told me a similar story:

<quote>
My dad was working in the "computing department" of a major Canadian company back when punch cards were still en vogue.

He was driving a pick-up truck with a co-worker down a steep hill street in Montreal when, stopped at a light, he was struck from behind by a tow truck.

Back in those days nobody wore seatbelts and somehow he broke a leg. Needless to say the punch cards in the back exploded allover the intersection.

So my dad, with a broken leg and a secretary helping him, crawled around the intersection tryring to reorder the 5 000 or so punch cards that represented the compny's payroll program for that month.

You can imagine what the ambulance driver, who didn't even know what punch cards were, said to him when he arrived.
</quote>

- Oliver

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