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About the same year, although I was 9 at the time. I discovered that there was no requirement to have an account to submit a job to the High Speed Job Stream in
by raganwald 15y ago
About the same year, although I was 9 at the time. I discovered that there was no requirement to have an account to submit a job to the High Speed Job Stream in UofT’s Sanford Fleming building. You just typed your program up on punch cards, prepended the deck with a special card that instructed the system whether to use WATFOR, SNOBOL, or LISP (I did not try PL/I), and put it in the hopper behind everyone else’s job. Moments later, the line printer a few feet away would spew your output at high speed.