[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

Tue Jan 18 21:18:43 MST 2011

I used to operate UNIVAC 1108 systems at Computer Sciences Corporation. They
also and one 1180 which was suppose to be UNIVAC's latest and greatest to
keep up with IBM. This was in the late 1970s. Yes, who would have known.
Even the IBM3330 that I worked with, 15 mps (million instructions per
second) would be slow compared to the PC that I am using now, and it isn't a
new model.

Ed

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From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Malcolm Schmerl
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:06 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

Thought I'd put in my two cents. In '64, I went to work for lockheed
Missiles and Space Co. in Sunnyvale, Calif. I worked in a team of 40
engineers known as Loads and Dynamics Analysis. I was the only one with any
computer skills at all which resulted from a two unit FORTRAN course I'd
taken at Purdue University. My main job was to maintain and execute a a
FORTRAN program that modeled the launch of a Polaris missile from a
submarine and calculated the shear forces as the missile exited the launch
tube for specific roll, pitch and yaw motions of the submarine and wave
conditions as well as arming configuration of the missile. The program was
some 5,000 lines of code all on punch cards. When one of the engineers
wanted to see results for certain conditions, I'd type up some data cards,
properly place that data at the end of the two and a half boxes of cards,
put the boxes on a cart, wheel that cart down the hall and hand them through
a window to a computer tech. The next day, I'd return to pick up the output.
The computer was a Univac 1107, said to be one of the most advanced machines
at that time. It was housed in what I'd imagine was a 10,000 sq. ft. room
that was substantially air conditioned. Amazing that I now have thousands of
times as much computing power at my finger tips and it all sits on my lap.

On 01/18/2011 08:20 PM, keith smith wrote: 

How much did the Altair cost and what did you pay for your house in 1974?

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 1/18/11, TR  <mailto:trexx at pobox.com> <trexx at pobox.com> wrote:

From: TR  <mailto:trexx at pobox.com> <trexx at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group"  <mailto:tfug at tfug.org> <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8:13 PM

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> wrote:

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

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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
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