of the physics department. I remember having lunch (well, burgers and coke...) with Ohlen Cartmell, a fellow electrical engineering student,
and noticing a pad of LGP-30 coding sheets in his pile of books. Asked him about it, and, as they say, the rest is history.
I used up evenings, nights, weekends...with the likes of Dick Dils, Paul Holzschuler, the late Carl Trivett, many others.
Thanks to Mel Kaye (yes, see "The story of Mel, a Real Programmer" -- just about anywhere on the Web) and the others at Royal Precision,
we became (or thought we became) "real programmers" who could work at the binary level ... well, because we had to!
We also played Mel's famous/infamous Blackjack game -- hundreds of times.
Here
are some quick examples of the materials I saved from those days...
Click on the thumbnails for enlargements..
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A view through the glass
at the early Ohio University Computer Center in old Super Hall - about
1962. The LGP-30 plus Flexowriter and and paper-tape Photoreader are tended
by a student, whose name escapes me. Another Flexowriter is in the left
rear corner, used for preparing paper-tape programs. Program tape rolls
are in the plastic-parts drawer unit on the back wall to the right of the
bookshelf, and manual calaulators are on the desk partially in view to
the right. A lot of good times, good computing and learning went on here.
