[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Ed Wilson]

OH, I thought some of these old time UNIX folks might pre-date the Commodore
and go to those old home made PCs that had the keyboard and processor
screwed down to a piece of wood. Now I would like to see a picture of one of
those. I guess I could find one on the Internet but I never wanted to see
one bad enough to look. 

 

I started working at the UofA in 1989, in production services until I
retired last year. I didn't want to retire but the job just wasn't as good
as it was before the reorg and the management became so obnoxious that I
couldn't take it. In fact most of the senior staff in operations, production
control and programming that could retire did retire like rats leaving a
sinking ship.

 

I went to a vocational school way back when I was a young man with hair, and
even learned how to read Hollerith code. And I actually had to read a blank
punched card once on a job. Wow, that made it worth while.

 

OK, who among this list learned how to wire/program a IBM 407 accounting
machine? Or a 557 card reproducer (I think it was a 557, may be 559 too many
years ago). That was a lot of fun!! :-)

 

Ed

 

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From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
keith smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:39 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

 



You just pulled in the entire list.

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com> wrote:


From: Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
To: angussf at geoapps.com, "'Tucson Free Unix Group'" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7:35 PM

So which of you folks had a Commodore 64?

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Angus Scott-Fleming
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:20 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

On 18 Jan 2011 at 15:57, Jim Secan  wrote:

> UA still on punch cards by 73-74?  

Long after that, I did some statistics at the UA using punch-cards, and I
think 
that was in '78 or '79.  

> Although, I was still feeding punch cards to an IBM 360 at UCLA in the
> mid-1970s (still have some of those decks, too). 

Finally parted with mine a few years ago. [sigh].

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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