How computers Work!

[pug406]

Got this in an email today, my how things have changed

http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/default.html

[pdV6]

Fabulous - my brother in law has an original copy of that very book; we found it in his mother's loft whilst clearing out.

[davidd]

Sadly enought when I got inti IT we were using punch cards and tape (and I'm only pretty old )

D

[RobDickinson]

Wow , we have a 1971 copy in out IT library here, 1st thing on the reading list for all new employee's.


Wish I were joking - our main app is 50's missile tech developed into a hospital system, still running on IBM mainframes...

[Plotloss]

davidd said:

Sadly enought when I got inti IT we were using punch cards and tape (and I'm only pretty old ) D

Did you have to book time with ops to get your punchcards entered onto the system?

Was discussing this recently with a COBOL developer friend of mine who started with punchcards, I was absolutely astounded.

[Liszt]

My first cobol manual when I started in IT was 4 years older than I was and had section for coding £.s.d!

[annodomini2]

Although quite funny in its antiquity, but if fact still quite technically accurate from a basic operation of computers, apart from getting much quicker, they haven't really changed much!

[Pigeon]

pdV6 said:

Fabulous - my brother in law has an original copy of that very book; we found it in his mother's loft whilst clearing out.

So have I. Also "How it works - The Motor Car", "How it works - The Motor Cycle", "How it works - The Locomotive (diesel and electric)", and various others in the series. All good stuff, simple, accurate and understandable to little kiddies.

[davidd]

Plotloss said:

davidd said: Sadly enought when I got inti IT we were using punch cards and tape (and I'm only pretty old ) D Did you have to book time with ops to get your punchcards entered onto the system? Was discussing this recently with a COBOL developer friend of mine who started with punchcards, I was absolutely astounded.

I was in bloody ops, and I probably still hold the record for the most mag tapes carried at any one point (but that was later when we went all high tech).

D