No, the IBM 2671 paper tape device was a reader only. The paper tape
punches were from older systems. I guess paper tape got punched on
teletype machines in S/360 days. I had a customer with a 2671.
I started keeping IBM sales manual pages that were "discard this page"
when updates came out in about the 1970 time frame. I realized that I
was throwing out history, so I kept some that I thought were important.
Also I hung on to old IBM Blue Letters as product announcements were
called. When I moved last summer, I shipped about a 6" tall stack of
them to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum
Jim
Mike Walter wrote:
And just this morning I had been wondering about those who have
contributed to this thread, wondering how they could remember so much
detail (even if some memory had a few parity checks). Thus, how much
truly important personal information had been paged out of their real
memory (perhaps to paper tape?), being forever lost to permit these
technical details to remain? :-)
Obviously, over the years Lynn has kept more records than a radio station
(oops: wrong media -- and now: wrong era).
Mike Walter
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