[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[TR]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How much did the Altair cost and what did you pay for your house in 1974?
>
>
20,000 for the house and about 500 on the altair, but I must have put  two
thousand hours in to getting it to the point a nongeek would at least say
thats interesting

So by today's dollars about $7000 and a years effort.



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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Tue, 1/18/11, TR <trexx at pobox.com>* wrote:
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> From: TR <trexx at pobox.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8:13 PM
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>
> In '69 I did not work on IBM iron, but I designed and built and simple
> Half-Adder <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_%28electronics%29> that I
> made in to a calculator and then with point to point wiring made a computer
> of sorts.  Building various Popular Electronic projects until building an
> Altair around 74.  even had an article in Pop-Elect around that time, can't
> remember what is was,  a simple light controller
>
> TR
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com<http://mc/compose?to=debed@debed.com>
> > wrote:
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> 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!! J
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>
> Ed
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> *From:* tfug-bounces at tfug.org <http://mc/compose?to=tfug-bounces@tfug.org>[mailto:
> tfug-bounces at tfug.org <http://mc/compose?to=tfug-bounces@tfug.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *keith smith
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:39 PM
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> *To:* Tucson Free Unix Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
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> You just pulled in the entire list.
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Tue, 1/18/11, Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com<http://mc/compose?to=debed@debed.com>
> >* wrote:
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> From: Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com <http://mc/compose?to=debed@debed.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
> To: angussf at geoapps.com <http://mc/compose?to=angussf@geoapps.com>,
> "'Tucson Free Unix Group'" <tfug at tfug.org<http://mc/compose?to=tfug@tfug.org>
> >
> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7:35 PM
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> So which of you folks had a Commodore 64?
>
> Ed
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> tfug-bounces at tfug.org <http://mc/compose?to=tfug-bounces@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.
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> On 18 Jan 2011 at 15:57, Jim Secan  wrote:
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> > UA still on punch cards by 73-74?
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> 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].
>
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> Angus Scott-Fleming
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