How I used to get my Apps in the 80's

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• tkhnoman Member

  July 2013

  Backups that is older than me...

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• OZApps Guru

  July 2013

  @tkhnoman,

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• Caroline Guru

  July 2013

  Do you have any KiddiSoft tapes? My mother reckons she invented the word "compumag" with her monthly Speccy magazine.
  

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• ArtLeeApps Member

  July 2013

  one of my "old" bosses, told me a stories about when he programmed, and had to book time for the machine, and insert his programs that were stored on "punch cards"... he dropped a box once and had to sort them... and it was quicker to use your car and take a reel of data to a customer than to transfer on the network. ... )

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• techdojo Guru

  July 2013

  I remember those, used to have whole boxes of C90's back in the day before I managed to get a 1541 disk drive!
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2013

  @ArtLeeApps I used to have to give my Cobol code to an operator on pages on a grid paper - with one space per character. They typed each line in onto punch card, they then gave the sheet to the next operator who typed in the same lines. They used this as a verification system.
  
  You would then get two stacks of cards, a card for each line of code x2.
  
  The cards were then fed into the card reader and if the two sets of cards didn't match then that line was rejected. It would be then re-created and re-entered.
  
  All this was done for the ICL2904.
  
  http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral76/med/r28665m.jpg
  
  I think the double data entry system was used because in Cobol if you get a single PIC statement wrong then you can get thousands of errors.
  
  

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• ArtLeeApps Member

  July 2013

  @SinisterSoft, geez how things have changed now, you can copy/paste whole applications in seconds
  
  The boss i mentioned did come from an ICL/Fujitsu (Britian) (a David Oswald) ... who then founded Oasis/Oswald Associates, that i worked for, writing code for Hospital Costing Systems.... the closest i got was a ICL DRS3000 DRS4000 machine runing Unix/Zenix, but by then it was all on DAT cartridges (modern times !)
  
  

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• OZApps Guru

  August 2013

  Ahhhh DATs...
  

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• ArtLeeApps Member

  August 2013

  i had a pile of them, and did cyclic backups

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• OZApps Guru

  August 2013

  I used them for data backups and also remember them being used by the broadcasting stations, I think airlines also used them for their in-flight music.

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• Garyk1968 Member

  August 2013

  ahhh memories Oz!
  
  Used to fit a ton of zx81 games onto a C90. My mate used to record his voice before each one with what the game was, it was always something like 'space invaders...call it A' so we would then type in Load "A" and press play
  

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