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Re: Punch Cards (Was latest technology)
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Chuck Duncan <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 May 1999 18:56:45 -0700
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John Pearce continues

>>Also, for those who dropped their cards, there was the 086 Collator, if you
>>remembered how to wire the board ;)

>Actually, it was quicker to sort the cards using a sorter.
>Anyone remember running Fortran II on the IBM 1620 before IBM provided the
>1311 disk drive?  All punch cards.  We thought we were in heaven when IBM
>provided a 1311 drive and we could dump all those card decks.

Was the 1311 about 6 feet tall with 10 36 inch diameter 1 megabyte platters for
a whopping 10mg?  The first disk drive was.

Chuck Duncan

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