Rick:
No, it was definitely a 402. The 407 was around at the time, but I never
got trained on it. If I recall correctly, the boards looked a lot the same.
Mike Myers
On 08/17/2011 06:27 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
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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). :-)
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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
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