[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Richard B Clark]

Yep. Remember it well. I worked at the UofAz Computer Center from 72-78,
from general grunt thru operator (CDC6400) thru programmer and analyst.
I had a friend who tried to get me to transfer over to Onocology at the
UofAz Hospital, to take his job as their IT guy. They were running several
Data General Nova systems and possibly an Eclipse.  He complained to DG one
too many times about a OS bug that they repeated failed to fix on several
releases.  They finally complied by sending him almost 40 boxes of paper
tape that he could read in - in place of the single mag tape,
Because they could. He never even tried.
I didn't take that job.
-Richard

-----Original Message-----
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johngalt1
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:34 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf at geoapps.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:19 PM
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.

At UA, one of my class mates took SIE170 in about 1982-3 
approx. They used punch cards feeding a Cyber 175, IIRC.

That following summer session, I took SIE170. We used a VAX 
11/780 or 11/785 with VMS accessed on Zenith dumb terminals. 
**JOY**

This was when there was parking at the Computer Center off 
of Mountain.. This was one of many surface parking lots to 
be later built-on-top-of.

>> 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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