Rick, Couldn't you also get printout from the console typewriter?
Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Fochtman [mailto:rfocht...@ync.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 06:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: Last card reader? ------------------------------------<snip>----------------------------- > Wow, a 402!! Who'd have guessed there was still one running outside a > museum? > > I learned "programming" when I was taught to wire the board that > controlled one of those. I also used to maintain them as a Field > Engineer, but that was in 1964. > > I last worked on one in 1966 before I left for system 360 programming > school in Poughkeepsie (I haven't seen once since). :-) ---------------------------------<unsnip>--------------------------------- Was that a 402 or a 407? I still have a 407 board that takes 80 columns from the first card and 52 columns from the second line to create a single 132-character line. It was the only way we could get a print-out from our 1620. Rick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
