Thread: Scypt and Language support

So what sort of code is supported on the forums? Is it pretty much just PHPBB or can one use standard PHP and HTML in their posts? If so I may start getting really creative with my posts if at all possible.

Matt

Originally Posted by Kentriv

So what sort of code is supported on the forums? Is it pretty much just PHPBB or can one use standard PHP and HTML in their posts? If so I may start getting really creative with my posts if at all possible.

Matt

no html for security reasons. FWIW, my $.02 is keep it simple.... we have members from all walks of life who share a common interest in str8 razors... but not necessarily computers . And some of us are old enough to remember when we programmed computers with switches, not keyboards and mice, so take it easy on us gray hairs

Haha, ok. I was just curious if there was any support. I can understand the security stuff. No worries then.

Matt

Originally Posted by azjoe

.... And some of us are old enough to remember when we programmed computers with switches, not keyboards and mice, so take it easy on us gray hairs

Boy, Joe, that takes me back...I remember my college days, trudging over to the computer center through snow and slush, lugging BOXES of punched computer cards - we'd hand them to the computer guy on the other side of the window, push a button, and they'd FLY into the machine at about a gazillion mph and suddenly stop. The computer guy would throw them back in the box, hand it to us through the window and say...

'Didn't work"

....good grief!! We'd trudge back home, dig back through them, one card at a time (was it the code?? - usually...was it a bad card?? - sometimes) -- it got to the point where the challenge was just to get all the cards through - the heck with the program - just getting it to read all of the cards was a major event!!

...ah, yes....the golden years of digital computing...thank God for slide rules!

-thanks for the (virtual) trip down memory lane!

-whatever

-Lou

One good thing about punch cards was they shot well with a rubber band. And you could get revenge on the ops with a lace card or two smuggled into somebody elses deck.

I once ran a gang punch test to create a dummy card deck with LOT's of punches,
and spent days dirting them up and copying the artwork done on the top of a
configuration deck that contained about 900 cards so I could drop them during
an emergency boot.

I worked with another "senior" operator on a Honeywell 6080 mainframe, and
he was a snot...I got the deck from the card file and dropped it while he was in
full freak out mode with a system boot, and I think he crapped in his pants!!!

I told him not to worry, we could get them back in order if we just turned them
on end and read the binary sequence numbers, and started making little piles
of cards as I read the numbers.

I don't think he ever got over that...He always got real nervious when I was
around during system boots.

Those old mainframes were a lot of fun...We would hide inside the cabinets
during rubber band fights....

Hahaha... the 'good ole days'.....

I sure have lots of 'fond' memories regarding

• an operator dropping three whole boxes of punched cards...
• repairing punched paper tapes after the high speed paper tape reader jammed and tore the tape to shreds... scotch tape, a pin and a razor blade
• coaxing an overheated teletype to finish reading a boot tape by spraying the reader with aerosol circuit cool to coax it along
• reading Ampex tapes with a hand reader (some iron filings encapsulated between two thin glass sheets that you could lay over the tape and read the bits
• hand coding the start of instruction fetches while the previous instruction was completing to take advantage of the rotational latency inherent in drum memory
• when the computer had 16k-bytes of memory total... and we could write useful applications in that space

Hmmm.... come to think of it, maybe they weren't all so "fond"