Aaaah, the good ol days

[Stephen]

you know your a geek when :-)

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132061
>
> but I do miss those exciting days, nights and weekends.  I remember one of
> my programs failing and crashing the computer at the university of Minnesota
> and none of the teachers could figure out how until they sent me to the
> professor who had written the fortran compiler.  When he couldn't see what
> was wrong either he gave me a special card to put in my deck to use his
> unlimited account to print a memory dump after every instruction.  After 5
> cases of paper printed he determined I had overrun a buffer and overwritten
> a portion of memory used by the security system.
>
> Stuff like writing a ONE card program to duplicate a card deck when no one
> had ever done it in less than three cards.
>
> Oh, the memories.  :)
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
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-- 
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen