Timeline for How were bugs reported for compilers that were shipped on floppy disks?
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| Mar 11, 2020 at 9:30 | answer | added | Patrick Schlüter | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 11, 2020 at 7:57 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 11, 2020 at 3:25 | history | suggested | Ola Ström | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2020 at 7:08 | comment | added | cjs | @Mawg Fortunately today we have advanced far past such ad hoc methods and can now use modern networking protocols over avian carriers. | |
| Aug 12, 2018 at 23:02 | comment | added | James Moore | The same way they do today: telephones. Phone support is a huge part of the industry in 2018, just as it was thirty years ago. @tofro: nope. Bald eagles are common in the Pacific Northwest (someone has to eat all the salmon), and they're the reason Microsoft relocated here from the desert. Use of buzzards was a complete failure. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 21:22 | answer | added | Tom Collinge | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 21, 2017 at 9:36 | comment | added | tofro | @StephenKitt And Microsoft hoarded a big bad army of buzzards to hunt down the poor Borland support pigeons - That's why Borland went down in the end and MS prevails in the market today ... | |
| May 19, 2017 at 15:12 | answer | added | Michael Shopsin | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2017 at 10:51 | answer | added | rackandboneman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 18:57 | vote | accept | JAL | ||
| Dec 5, 2016 at 9:51 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | @Mawg and birdfeed was a widely under-reported yet significant portion of the TCO in those days! | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 8:56 | comment | added | Mawg | This question appears to have nothing to do with floppies and everything to do with the lack of internet. Back in the day, every copy of the compiler came with a carrier pigeon. If we detected a bug, we would write a description of it on a very small piece of paper which we would then attach to the leg of the pigeon and release it. The pigeon would return to base, thus reporting the bug. The compiler company would then mail us a new pigeon in a basket, for use in reporting any subsequently discovered bugs. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 10:02 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Even pre-installed software was provided on floppies too (assuming it was legally pre-installed). Support for some of that would go through the computer manufacturer though... Software for workstations and mini-computers shipped on tapes too (not the MC variety though!). | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 3:12 | answer | added | Sam Hobbs | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 23:19 | answer | added | mcleod_ideafix | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 19:18 | answer | added | tofro | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 19:02 | comment | added | JAL | @tofro fair point. I guess another alternative could be the OS or any other programs shipped with a computer. But I guess those would also run on external media if the computer did not have any internal memory. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 18:59 | comment | added | tofro | I'm not sure why you are specifically referring to "software that came on floppies"? There was no other way to ship software in these days (MC for home computers, maybe). | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 13:14 | answer | added | PeterI | timeline score: 24 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 7:55 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 30 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 1:14 | comment | added | JAL | Related: How were analytics gathered on software built for retrocomputing platforms? | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 1:14 | history | asked | JAL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |