[Default] On 17 Jan 2017 07:42:04 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Charles Mills) wrote:
>1403, not 1401. > >And 1443 (?). I had a client that had a 1403 variant that was a little slower >but included a 16-or-so column card reader. You could print invoices on >pre-punched cards and read the punching to make sure you were printing on the >right card (no spool, obviously). It printed on "160-column" cards, that is, >two 80-column cards with a tearable fold in the middle. One-half was the >document the customer returned with a check; one half was for his records. > >1401 was a processor, not a printer, the "commercial" machine that preceded >the 360, the "all-purpose" computer. (70xx was the "scientific" series.) The 1401/1410, 705 - 7080 were character machines with decimal arithmetic, the 707 - 707x were word machines with decimal arithmetic, and the 704 - 704x and 709 -709x were 36 bit word with binary arithmetic. The 1620 was a weird machine for scientific use with decimal arithmetic via table lookup. Clark Morris Clark Morris > >Agree on the 3211. > >There is just zero doubt in my mind that the 1403 printer used a "special" >(not TTY-like) paper tape, solely for carriage control, not "data." > >Charles > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM >Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:24 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) > > >Gil: >That is not how I remember it at all. The Carriage tape on a 1403/3211(?) was >just for that machine. i.e. skip to channel x As I have said before I do not >ever remember seeing any IBM device or computer that had a paper tape >reader/writer. >This goes back to the 360s . I just got off the phone with a friend and he >does not remember it for the 14xx either. > >Ed >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >1403/3211? It was for the 1401/1403. You had to load it during setup. In >Dutch: 'het bandje' or 'the strap'. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
