pski wrote: > I was cards. We didn't need no stinking disk drives! Oh: then the big > innovation was reading cards to the platter so it could be sorted by a > program instead of sorting through "the sorter" that did 120 cards per > minute. > > This was a Univac 9200 II that only had buttons. Not a keyboard, > buttons. It had "core" memory that would now make a stupendous coffee > table because it was sealed in glass with rod braces that were secured > with lock nuts. > > I'm not that old, I just started young. > > <Everyone thinks my kids taught me about networks and slimdevices. Let > them dream> > > P13309
Yup when I studied Electronics the head of the school was a retied old IBM Engineer & one of the things we worked on was a IBM card reader, He was great to talk to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ billybeek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54815 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94944 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
