: [EXTERNAL] Re: Kinda fun
Bob Bridges wrote about his history with keypunches.
Mine started in 1965, when I was four. My dad was working on his first
concordance, of Beowulf, and my mom was going to do the data entry of the text.
(They'd met in the 50s when he was working for a CIA front
eyed.
Rex
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Bridges
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That WAS fun!
I preceded that author by, I think, barely a year; I waffled around, changed
ma
Yup, 5 80-column cards to boot an NCR Century 200. Kinda wish I still had a
set of them.
Rex
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