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120 col. punch cards?
You had a high-density model. Mine only had 80 cols, of which 72 were usable for my
goto-happy Fortran statements.
SF
No hard drives?
My $0.02 worth,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
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The old IBM System3 machines used 120 col. punch cards. And initially they
had no HD's. Everything was done with cards and a reader/sorter. To
compile a program you took the code you wrote, punched it into cards and
then put it behind a stack of cards that was the compiler. The machine read
