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Originally Posted by harborman
These young kids just have no idea of punched paper tape and IBM cards! But it was fun at the time. My first program written on DEC PDP-11, predissor of the PC, cost over $48k in 1974.
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I still have tinnitus due to too many hours/days/months in front of an IBM 026 card punch machine. Used the IBM 1301 punched card accounting machine until we (USAF) upgraded to a Burroughs 3500. Talk about sitting in tall cotton. It had data and programs on tape reels. Still had to input with punched cards though.
Actually, I do prefer the new systems. even though I can still decipher the hollerith coding on punched cards.
