Trivia.. Recently I went to the Titan-II ICBM silo (now a museum) just outside Tucson, AZ .. Interesting fact, they loaded the program for the nucleaur tipped ballistic missiles guidence system from a paper tape..
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:40 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IBM 1401 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 > Hewitt Associates > Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily > represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. > > -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell jab...@cornell.edu
