On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> 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
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:17 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> >
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:13 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
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> >> From reading your many and interesting posts to this list I realize
> >> that we must be contemporar
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
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>On Wed, August 27, 2008 14:19, William L. Maltby wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:13 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
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>>> From reading your many and interesting posts to this list I realize
>>> that we must be contemporaries (possibly I starte
On Thu, August 28, 2008 12:53, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> 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"
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.
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> Burroughs MCP (Master Control Program) ran circles around IBM's
> OS-3xx, and didn't require an army of suppor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM, William L. Maltby
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>> > 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*
>> You c
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:
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>> 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.
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