[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Jim Secan]

UA still on punch cards by 73-74?  I started programming at Kitt Peak using paper tape and punch cards on their CDC 3200 (3300?), and then on the brand-new-hot-spit CDC 6400 (6600?) that rolled in the door while I was there (summer 1968).  Then many hours spent between UA office/home/computer-center turning in and fetching results (then computer-center/GreenDolphin when I came of age) until 1971.  Thought they'd have upgraded, but I guess the RIOTs are the upgrades that we never saw.  Although, I was still feeding punch cards to an IBM 360 at UCLA in the mid-1970s (still have some of those decks, too).

Jim

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On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Louis Taber wrote:

> Yep.  Punch cards and paper tape at ASU (71-73).  Only punch cards at the UofA (73-74).  The UofA had RIOTs --- Remote input/output terminals - I think their "official" name was something else.  I don't remember either punch cards and paper tape at SJSU (77-78).  - Louis
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