Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

Crashnburn said:
How do they spread the chem trails?
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Pilots are equipped with neural net (helmets lined with electrodes) eye tracking such all they have to do is think mean thoughts about the target area. Thus the system is armed and presents its battle plan for approval. Of course the pilots argue for a minute over who gets the credit on this one. The winner then holds his breath and vigorously performs the vagal maneuver until his face turns red to launch the payload. It's all done seamlessly in a perfect duet of men and cyber. Any further description is classified at the double secret level and you shouldn't be asking.
 
Reminds me of the kid in the library asking the librarian about the long row of matching books.

"That's the encyclopedia," explained the librarian.

"You mean somebody printed out the whole thing?!"
 
Half Fast said:
Reminds me of the kid in the library asking the librarian about the long row of matching books.

"That's the encyclopedia," explained the librarian.

"You mean somebody printed out the whole thing?!"
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“Yup, Sonny, when I was your age, the whole internet was in that set of books.
 
robin ardoin said:
"Sonny, I can remember when floppy disks were still floppy"
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When one of the IT/custommer support jokes was about the customer who backed-up his data on a box of floppies, then put them in the typewriter to write the description on the labels.
 
Half Fast said:
I used punch cards for COBOL. Not fun.
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Punch cards for assembly. Was more interesting to interfere with the IPL systems. :D
Wow, as I say that I think about how old I am, and how long I have worked in IT.

Tim
 
tspear said:
Punch cards for assembly. Was more interesting to interfere with the IPL systems. :D
Wow, as I say that I think about how old I am, and how long I have worked in IT.

Tim
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I used punch cards for FORTRAN, PL1 and RPG.
 
Punch cards for Cobol and BAL
Paper strips were top tech at the Jr. College I attended prior to transferring to Ga. Tech.

When I worked at Equifax in Atlanta we had two DP divisions. I was in distributed networks (Digital PDP, then Digital VAX).
The other division was the Mainframe (IBM) division. They had a party one weekend when they put in a new disk drive that took them over 1 whole TERABYTE! Wow. Their data center was the size of a football field.
Now, I'm wondering if a 1TB SSD disk is big enough for my wife's photography hobby.
 
jsstevens said:
I used punch cards for FORTRAN, PL1 and RPG.
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We had teletypes (remember those?) for FORTRAN and Assembly, running a Xerox/Honeywell mainframe.

There were several single-letter shortcuts for system commands, and it was easily possible to type several lines ahead of the teletype. I recall once intending to type “E <program name>” to do an edit, accidentally hitting “D” instead, and watching in helpless horror as my program was deleted.
 
Half Fast said:
We had teletypes (remember those?) for FORTRAN and Assembly, running a Xerox/Honeywell mainframe.

There were several single-letter shortcuts for system commands, and it was easily possible to type several lines ahead of the teletype. I recall once intending to type “E <program name>” to do an edit, accidentally hitting “D” instead, and watching in helpless horror as my program was deleted.
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Model 33 teletypes and paper tape. I did basic programming in a Westinghouse 2550 mini with that.
 
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