[COFF] Quote from Wilkes

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Mar 7 07:06:33 AEST 2021


On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Nemo Nusquam wrote:

> I am currently reading "Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer" by Maurice 
> Wilkes, MIT press.  The following text from p. 145 may amuse readers.

[...]

You were lucky!  Back in my Uni days (punched cards on the 029) we only 
had the overnight batch run on the 360/50, so we quickly learned to code 
properly lest the output be returned with the dreaded "syntax error".

-- Dave


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