"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote:
> what about a paper tape reader ;) I used to have to butterfly those
> damed paper tapes in the navy what fun that was ;)
>
> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> >
> > Wow, I've only heard about keypunch. My high school cs teacher used to
> > tell us about it. I learned COBOL when I was in high school, but we had a
> > nice VMS machine to code it on. And I thought COBOL just couldn't be any
> > worse, but I guess I was wrong.
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, ibi wrote:
> >
> > > And, here I thought I was the only kid on the block old enough to know
> > > what keypuch is! Shilly me. LOL .. Pj
> > >
I used to have an old Teletype with a paper tape reader in the basement
(probably still have some old paper on a roll laying around for it). My father
kept tryin' to teach me basic over an blazin' sub-300 baud modem if memory
serves me (it's been a while).
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