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. :)
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry