We still had our reader/punch until the end of 1995. I don't think we used
it at all the last year. It finally took moving the datacenter to get rid
of it.
I do remember one time when they still used a lot of punched cards in the
factory for picking tickets etc. when the punch broke. We didn't have IBM
maintenance at the time. After 3 or 4 days of not being able to punch
cards, we the maintenance company had to call IBM in. It turned out some
internal cable was bad. We were getting to the point where the factory was
going to have to shut down if we couldn't punch cards out anymore. I think
that was around 1990.
Eric
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott T. Harder" <[email protected]>
It's interesting to me that I am seeing a couple of references to the
80's (albeit early 80's) in some of these posts related to punched
cards. I started in 1984 at AT&T in Orlando (in I/O Distribution)
and saw nary a punched card. I guess it depends on where you were.
--
All the best,
Scott T. Harder
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
