On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:32 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: > We also had a Canola. You said they were "punch" cards, though as I > recall > the "ones" were encoded by using a soft pencil marked in the position > on the > card.
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=413872 The blue cards were partially perforated, and you pushed out the chads with, say, a pencil, to make physical holes. > I'm thinking it was around '78 or '79 when I got to use it to solve > the general quadratic equation or some such. I can't recollect whether > it > was the Canola, or playing with the Tandy TRS-80 the store (nobody > seemed to > mind) that I got to first try my hand at machine automation. yeah, Tandy didn't like me after I had the store computer "sledge" Tandy. -- Peter Miller <pmil...@opensource.org.au> _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
