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To: GingisK; 12th_Monkey
Naw, 8 inch floppies and an ASR33 Teletype is vintage.

That must make paper tape and punch cards downright prehistoric... ;)

30 posted on 01/16/2014 7:48:59 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

LOL ... I was going to post something similar. IBM system 360 ... then UNIVAC 9000 series computers .... punch cards, paper tape and TTY machines ... What fun!


37 posted on 01/16/2014 8:19:38 AM PST by Neil E. Wright (An OATH is FOREVER OathKeeper III We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
...paper tape and punch cards...

I liked punched cards and the "Big Iron". I got my finger cut pretty badly on paper tape that was being read at 1000 characters per second. Ah, the PDP-11 was a honey.

My list of computers I've used is really long. Most people have never heard of many of them.

41 posted on 01/16/2014 8:48:01 AM PST by GingisK
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