In a message dated 11/15/2006 8:48:52 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
computer students take card punch class, just so we'd know what it was like in case they were still in use in business when we graduated...... This was in the early 80's. >> What I remember it was the successor to RAX. Big improvement over cards, but somebody dropped the APL ball and couldn't motor for two days...some where the Tektronic came into play and was able to do graphics interactively although maybe it was a dialup connection. Still beat cards to pieces. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html