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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: edit sessions via punch cards
Message-ID: <1134@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 16:13:18 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1134
Posted: Wed Mar 19 16:13:18 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:34:25 EST
References: <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM> <189@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
Lines: 21
Keywords: TECO, TXO1
Summary: 

>In article <1629@decwrl.DEC.COM> moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) writes:
>  In the dark ages when terminals were very scarce (and used paper, and were
>often 110 baud) a friend of mine, rather than wait for a terminal to become
>free to edit a file, would type all the edit commands on CARDS and submit
>his "edit session" as a batch job!  He almost never screwed up the edit,
>either.

In the ?light? ages (1979) I took a co-op job with a Naval R&D outfit.
They ran off computers several hundred miles away in Eglin AFB, Florida;
big CDC monsters running NOS/BE, the BE standing for Batch Environment.
We could only input our jobs with cards, and the only 'editor' was a
card-based system called "update"; with which you could only delete and
insert full card images.

Thank God I only worked in that section for three weeks before getting
a *real* assignment!!
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