On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the drives in my case were 1311's. Or else 1310, but I think
that was the controller. 1403 printer, of course, and 1402 reader/punch.
Reading
On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:13 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
From reading your many and interesting posts to this list I realize
that we must be contemporaries (possibly I started programming before
you - circa 1963 on a ICL1500 aka RCA
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:17 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote:
snip
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:13 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
From reading your many and interesting posts to this list I realize
that we must be contemporaries
On Thu, August 28, 2008 12:53, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:17 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Started being paid to write software in 1969, for an IBM 1401. 026 and
029 card punches for me, too; I preferred the keyboard touch on the 026
by
quite a lot. 14 five
On Thu, August 28, 2008 13:14, Bill Campbell wrote:
I started in 1966 on a Bendix G-20, graduating to the Burroughs
B-5500 thence to the Burroughs Medium Systems, B-2500-B-4800.
Burroughs MCP (Master Control Program) ran circles around IBM's
OS-3xx, and didn't require an army of support
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the drives in my case were 1311's. Or else 1310, but I think
that was the controller. 1403 printer, of course, and 1402 reader/punch.
Reading cards with copper brushes at 800 cards per minute.
Well, I'm
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM, William L. Maltby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess we're both old enough to fill in for JP when the resident
curmudgeon is not on-list. ;-)
*checks for other folks on list with initials of JP*
*checks driver's license for age verification*
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