Deep inside a Delaware strip mall closet, an old, forgotten Pentium computer's NPC.EXE is running wild, compiling deranged and out-dated modmails that read... well, retarded like THIS! Any local frogs up for a mission? Please find & unplug this poor museum relic of a PC! It is suffering! 🐸
(media.greatawakening.win)
YOU'VE GOT BETA MALE!
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I was fortunate to be in a trade school in the early 1970's where the Board of Ed had an IT satellite office, with their computer! When their 2 programmers weren't using the computer, we got to run our stacks of cards (programs) through, and had them as our mentors. Was set up to function as their office, so we learned it all, keypunch, sorter, interpreter, printer. Also, since they didn't want us banging the keys, we got to learn typing on the IBM selectrics instead of the manual typewriters. Yes, I'm old....
My dad only had radio but he did work with the first computers in his anti- aircraft unit.
He had to de- bug, actuality clean the bugs off the tubes
I miss that old sound of a 557 interpreter ca chunk ca chunk ca chunk, and the sorter I think was the 082. They had to wiring boards. And I worked on keypunches 024, 026, 029, 129 and 059 verifier.
Still got a tube of silver wires that go into wire contact relays. Sometimes when I would go to a call, the girls would bring me their jewelry chains that had broken, and I would fix them with my contact wires.
Good memories!
Who had to wire boards?
Control Panel\Plugboard. 557 Interpreters you could control certain machine functions through the control panel which I called wiring board.
I was never trained on 557, but I remember things like zero print, and significant digits, controlling the stackers and other operations.
The operators set up the control panel depending on what they needed to do. Or the maintenance person could use to test the machine function.
You can see one here on this 557.