On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 13:13 -0700, ben via cctalk wrote: > I saw the ~5 drawers of punched cards that they used for this. I was > mortified at my mistake and expected that I was in BIG trouble. > Apparently the restore took most of the day.
It took all day because the card reader on the 1130 was REALLY slow. My first full-time job was as a 1401 operator. The 1402 could read 600 cards per minute, five minutes for a 3,000-card tray, 25 minutes for five of them.
