Another reason to visit DC... Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:21:48 -0700 From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list<[email protected]> To:[email protected] Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] UCLA Computer Club punched card at National Museum of American History
UCLA Computer Club punched card at National Museum of American History I just discovered that the National Museum of American History has a UCLA Computer Club "Moose" IBM card as a display. The moose was there since the IBM 360/91 was the only system that most students had access to at that time, and was used in batch mode (students not working on our ARPA projects that most students and faculty didn't even know existed at UCLA that is). The museum URL says this dates from the 60s, but it actually extended well into the 70s. The Campus Computing Network's (CCN, not to be confused with CNN!) 91's resource usage was billed in so-called Machine Unit Seconds (MUS - ah, Moose!), that different departments and projects were allocated for their work. Of course the museum write-up doesn't discuss any of that backstory. I have multiple decks of these cards around somewhere from some classes where I had to submit jobs that way, even though I was simultaneously working on ARPANET. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_690512 L - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein [email protected] (https://www.vortex.com/lauren) Lauren's Blog:https://lauren.vortex.com Mastodon:https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren Signal: By request on need to know basis Founder: Network Neutrality Squad:https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum:https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
