Well, that's what IBM always told us. They also sold us card saws so we
could unjam their readers and punches. All part of the IBM unit-record
experience!
And, in the early 80s we ditched the card gear and went to non-IBM printers.
On 10/22/2013 2:33 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 10/21/2013 5:46 PM, Jim Blalock wrote:
The unit-record gear was all IBM. No one did it better :-)
You might get an argument about that. The card reader on the CDC 6600
was faster than the IBM 2540, and managed to read mangled cards that
the 2540 would reject or jam up on. A decade later Documation produced
a 2501 compatible unit with similar technology. While the IBM 1403
with a TN train produced crisp text, the maintenance for it got so
high that in the eighties we switched to a Documation 2250 that was
faster and cheaper than IBM's printers.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, Vermont
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