Old farts and new Linux
John Nichel
john at kegworks.com
Mon May 3 20:04:14 UTC 2004
david wrote:
> OK ... My turn
>
> In 1958, I graduated from a Marchand (sp?) 100-key calculator to an
> IBM-650 to help me finish a physics lab data reduction. They had just
> retired the Card-Punch Calculator (IBM 605, I think). I wrote in BLISS
> (Anyone remember that), and o-so-well recall the +70 1951 9999 setting,
> and all that board-wiring. Thence, on to a Datatron 220, IBM-709/7090
> and 1401, dabbled with some PDP's and Tandem Non-Stops. I've been
> running Linux at home for my gateway for the past 4 years. It's a lot
> of fun.
>
> The 12-punch made the card a "loader".
>
> David Kurn
Imagine the horror on my father's face when he found me playing with the
punch cards for the system that they kept all their business records on. :o
--
John C. Nichel
KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john at kegworks.com
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