But did you ever have a room mate drop 500 punch cards of COBAL code on the floor? And only get 1 run of the code per hour?
It's spelled COBOL! Or so the Archaeologists tell us.
Actually it wasn't that bad. Didn't have to do punch cards thank Cod. I missed punch cards in my Assembly class by one year.
I do remember in the lab having to submit print jobs for the one high speed printer and waiting around for the output to be stuck in your little cubby hole in a wall of the lab like you were having mailed to you. lol
That high speed printer was in a glass enclosed room and you could look in as you walked down the hallway to the lab. One day a friend told me he had been walking down that hallway and heard a "Brrrrrrrrhrhrrhrhrhrhrrr!" and the sys admin jumped up from his desk and was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Apparently some one had submitted a job that had a page feed in a tight infinite loop and the high speed printer just started spewing out reams of paper like a river. LOL I'm sure that wasn't on purpose.
I had taken an AI class in LISP. All I remember was typing parenthesis within parenthesis within parenthesis within parenthesis for days. The parenthesis keys on the keyboard were worn down to nubs. I saw parenthesis in my sleep. The horror. The horror.