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MartG said:
Resonated.My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
TooLateForAName said:
Resonated.
My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
A library? Books? Come again? My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
(20 years ago I did a degree and never used books in the library. Internet all the way.)
TooLateForAName said:
MartG said:
Resonated.My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
gothatway said:
Youngster. My book list started with The Algol Report; at the time, Berners-Lee would have been barely out of short trousers. 
After putting in programs with toggle switches on a DEC PDP8, my first 'proper' programming language was Xalgol on a Burroughs B5700. Ah these were the days, punch your cards up and hand them in and 24 hours later get a ream of listing paper back only to find you'd made a typo on the first card. None of these new-fangled CRT screens. It were all fields, as far as the eye could see...tvrolet said:
gothatway said:
Youngster. My book list started with The Algol Report; at the time, Berners-Lee would have been barely out of short trousers.
After putting in programs with toggle switches on a DEC PDP8, my first 'proper' programming language was Xalgol on a Burroughs B5700. Ah these were the days, punch your cards up and hand them in and 24 hours later get a ream of listing paper back only to find you'd made a typo on the first card. None of these new-fangled CRT screens. It were all fields, as far as the eye could see...I can see this very quickly descending into "The Four Yorkshiregeeks" sketch. 
credit: https://xkcd.com/378/
credit: https://xkcd.com/378/
tvrolet said:
gothatway said:
Youngster. My book list started with The Algol Report; at the time, Berners-Lee would have been barely out of short trousers.
After putting in programs with toggle switches on a DEC PDP8, my first 'proper' programming language was Xalgol on a Burroughs B5700. Ah these were the days, punch your cards up and hand them in and 24 hours later get a ream of listing paper back only to find you'd made a typo on the first card. None of these new-fangled CRT screens. It were all fields, as far as the eye could see...s3dave said:
But yes always a mistake on one of the cards, Manually self punch a replacement card and another day’s wait to re-run (then find another mistake!)
I'm just about old enough to remember batch processing, where you submitted your code change to the mainframe and then waited several hours for the results to come back. It made iterative development rather slow. That was as a student, and it was consider archaic even then.
I've always loved this sketch by Mitchell and Webb.
The punchline is telegraphed right from the beginning, but it's the anticipation of where / how it's going to be delivered that I love so much. Especially the pause right before the punchline where you are thinking "here it comes... here it comes..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
The punchline is telegraphed right from the beginning, but it's the anticipation of where / how it's going to be delivered that I love so much. Especially the pause right before the punchline where you are thinking "here it comes... here it comes..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
TooLateForAName said:
Resonated.
My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
Are you sure that a low paid shelf stacker hadn't got astrology and astronomy mixed up?My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.
That's York off the list.
As for York... excellent uni - and a great city to be a student in.
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