These meters are also in Oakland, CA---and the only way to share time on them is to present the driver of the car that occupies the space you just left with your receipt. That really sucks---and most of the time the driver of the space you left has to purchase his/her own receipt.
I think although this is a boon to the city's coffers, it requires an additional expenditure of time on the "meter maids" to look at the dashboard of each car to see whether their time has expired.
If you're going to talk about old school, you gotta mention Mel.
What a good story. I remember the LGP-30 very well, all 16 instructions in the set...and the ever familiar H-E-M-A combination to compute numeric values from hex digits. I wrote a lot of LGP-30 machine code in those days. It too had a Jump address in each instruction, for optimizing the location of the next instruction on the drum. As I recall, the "Royal McBee" (i.e., Librascope) LGP-30 had only 4K 32-bit words of drum memory, and lots of very sophisticated programs were written with that little bit of memory. Brings back both fond and ugly memories of loading in a big roll of paper tape, only to find at the end that the program didn't load properly, and to have to try again and again. It was my first computer. That was in circa 1959.
Thanks for your mention of THINK C. I wrote the "Easy Object Programming With THINK C and AppMaker" book and your comment brought back fond memories of that time. Actually, I had few problems with having to reboot...but it is something to remember. There was also a THINK Pascal version of that book because the publisher thought that Pascal was going to be more popular than C. And, BTW, THINK C was one of the first OOP languages for the Mac.
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These meters are also in Oakland, CA---and the only way to share time on them is to present the driver of the car that occupies the space you just left with your receipt. That really sucks---and most of the time the driver of the space you left has to purchase his/her own receipt. I think although this is a boon to the city's coffers, it requires an additional expenditure of time on the "meter maids" to look at the dashboard of each car to see whether their time has expired.
Fantastic on my Dell M1710 running XP and Firefox 3.5.2! Perfect!
If you're going to talk about old school, you gotta mention Mel.
What a good story. I remember the LGP-30 very well, all 16 instructions in the set...and the ever familiar H-E-M-A combination to compute numeric values from hex digits. I wrote a lot of LGP-30 machine code in those days. It too had a Jump address in each instruction, for optimizing the location of the next instruction on the drum. As I recall, the "Royal McBee" (i.e., Librascope) LGP-30 had only 4K 32-bit words of drum memory, and lots of very sophisticated programs were written with that little bit of memory. Brings back both fond and ugly memories of loading in a big roll of paper tape, only to find at the end that the program didn't load properly, and to have to try again and again. It was my first computer. That was in circa 1959.
I did a ton of work in THINK C 5 on Mac OS 7.
Thanks for your mention of THINK C. I wrote the "Easy Object Programming With THINK C and AppMaker" book and your comment brought back fond memories of that time. Actually, I had few problems with having to reboot...but it is something to remember. There was also a THINK Pascal version of that book because the publisher thought that Pascal was going to be more popular than C. And, BTW, THINK C was one of the first OOP languages for the Mac.
On the other hand, yeah... fuck punch cards.
We wrote a lot of "efficient" code in the punch card days and it seems as though nobody really cares about efficiency anymore.
OTOH, I hated paper tape! I guess that makes me really old!