Vintage work crew photos

[hemmjo]

flock of birds in the sky, why do you poop in my eye....

Have you ever noticed when your dogs water bowl is sitting outside, like on the patio for example, in clear view of the sky, there is bird poop all around it but no where else on the patio? Like they are trying to hit the bowl?

[marksbug]

no there just drinking from the bowel as well as pooping at the same time,in&out saves time.

[Jon]

Workers assemble magnetos and flywheels on a moving assembly line for Ford vehicles. Highland Park, Michigan. 1913.

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[marksbug]

making a living. it's kinda strange how machines replaced the worker and the cost of the car went up dag near 1000%..or more!!!! sum ting wong

[Jon]

Mushroom cleaners. Nilsiä, Finland. 1926.

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[IntheGroove]

And boot repair...

[Jon]

A U.S. Census Bureau clerk (left) prepares punch cards using a pantograph similar to that developed by Herman Hollerith for the 1890 Census, while a second clerk (right) uses a 1930s key punch to perform the same task more quickly. The agency used punch cards to record and sort data using mechanical tabulators based on Hollerith’s designs until replacing them with computers and magnetic computer tape in the 1950s.

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[bruce.desertrat]

I started my programming career using those same punch cards. I was lucky, my dad worked in an office adjacent to the school, and they had 3 of them that were idle most of the time, versus having to stay up til all hours waiting to get to the ones in the computer center on campus. Fortran 101 class, the final project was programming Conway's game of Life. Very very slow: enter code on the cards, drop off deck at the input window, wait wait wait get your printout (good ol' 15x11 fanfold continuous printouts) at the output window, find bug, rinse and repeat.

[Beserkleyboy]

Bruce, same deal with me...UC San Diego 1971. Burroughs 6700. We used to do the keypunch at night to alleviate the crowd, the labs were all left wide open at night back then...Our term project was Monopoly, very tedious as I remember...oh, and we were able to use the wall phones in the labs to use the UC 'tie line' phone system. dial the code for the campus, 9 for outside line and voila! talk to the GF or family...cheers

Jim in Sunny Sth Coast AUS

[TrickieDickie]

I took Fortran in college too