February 11
Wow, Yas was in town from Japan and Dale joined us for lunch. We all worked together more than 30 years ago in my first computer job. Get this…we did all our work by writing our programs on big sheets of paper and then getting the keypunch operators (keypunch operators is pc – we actually called them The Girls) to type up our work on 2 feet tall stacks of punch cards. Then you had One Chance Per Day IF you were lucky, to run your program. One itty-bitty mistake like the keypunchers mistaking letter O for number 0 and you’ve lost a day. Probably two days because you can’t find the mistake. Yikes!
Yas LOVES to tell the story of finding me weeping, huddled in the corner of David’s office because ‘my program won’t work’. Oh he laughs about that!
Someday…I WILL DO This Thing OVER and make those guys NOT SO BLOTCHY!