interesting Univac ad from 1956

[davetheguru]

On those "old" mainframes (boys and girls) I remember if you divided by zero, it would create an exception that resulted in memory being "dumped" -- the next day, you would see a huge printout in our box (where your "output" would be, literally a mail box in the room for printouts, your card deck[program], etc.) that was your memory dump; the whole partition of RAM printed out in hex (the whole 64K if your were lucky). Then you could go thru the dump and hopefully find the problem that caused it. gdb would have been a godsend in those days!
You young whipper-snappers have it so easy these days.