Our VAX 11/780 had a card reader in the very early 1980s for reading in the names and details of incoming freshmen so their accounts could be set up.
It usually required a few runs to obtain an uncorrupted read of the card deck. The IBM system that generated the cards was on the other side of a wall but no attempt to have the two systems communicate with each other was ever made. On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:40 AM Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:50 AM Timothe Litt <l...@ieee.org> wrote: > >> Among others, DEC OEM'd Documation card readers. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0F1bLfFKY >> > Mark - sorry to go a little direct (simh) topic here [this sort of belongs > on Warren's COFF mailing list), but since the Card discussion started here > as I'm kinda curious and will ask it. > > Did DEC actually sell that many? In my years of working around DEC gear > starting in the late 1960s, I think I saw a card read/punch only once on a > PDP-6 IIRC, but it might have been a KA10. I don't think I ever saw one > on a PDP-8/11 or Vaxen. > > I certainly saw and used them on IBM 1401/360 systems, the Univac 1100s > and CDC's. I have not so fond memories of the IBM 1442, much less a 26 and > 29 keypunch (and a couple of great stories too). > > That said, when I think of DEC gear, my memories are of paper tape or > either the original DEC-Tape units or a couple of cases the old > cassette tape units DEC had on some of the laboratory PDP 11/05s. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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