I'm sure it took a lot of resources. I caught hell from my Structural=20 Engineering computing professor for adding the Alfred deck to the end of=20 my last homework assignment. Almost got an "F" instead of an "A" in the=20 class. That was just before graduation. On 3/4/13 12:18 PM, Barry Gershenfeld wrote: > I had heard that the image came out when there was an error. I suspect > that may be an urban-legendish retelling of the system you describe. > Especially considering that the amount of work expended in printing an > image probably exceeded that of the compiler + program being run. > Nonetheless, I have remembered this story (I heard it in 1972) and I have= a > 2 color (b&w) image of A.E. that I made and sometimes put him up on the L= CD > I'm writing a driver for. Considered having him appear after an error bu= t > never could quite find a good excuse for it. > > Thanks for the refresh. > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Carl Denk wrote: > >>> Meanwhile, the governments of Earth followed the principles laid down b= y >>> Alfred E. Neuman. >> Early 1960's, University of Michigan, high level programing language was >> MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), similar to Fortran. Alfred's picture >> was on the manual front cover. Machines were IBM 650 (vacuum tubes) > >> 709 > 7090 (Transistor). There was a punch card deck to print out on the >> noisy line printer Alfred's image. :) >> >> --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .