[PLUG] Joy++

[Frank Filz]

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> 
> >  When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
> >  *and* Emacs are just too damn slow.  They print useless messages
> > like,  'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'.  So I use the
> > editor  that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
> 
> >  Ed, man!  !man ed
> 
>    Yeah, and in the early 1960s I fed paper tape into a Burroughs
mainframe, in
> the early 1970s I fed 80-column Hollerith cards into the IBM S/360, and in
the
> late 1970s I used a Teletype terminal and Diablo typewriter/printer. Using
ed
> is like flipping logic switches on the front of the computer to program
it.
> 
>    Now is much better. Both emacs and vi do the job; pick the one you
like.

I don't go quite that far back...

My first program was written in Basic for an HP 2100A using 80 column cards
that were marked with #2 pencil instead of punching. Well, unless it was RPN
programming in an early HP programmable calculator, I forget which came
first.

I have done punched cards (in college).

I have flipped front panel switches (on a Heathkit).

I have loaded paper tape (the HP 2100A could also do paper tape).

I have written assembler code on paper (calculating branch relative offsets
by hand) and then typed it into an Apple II's monitor.

Frank



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