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nope, not until the 1401 came along.  before that it was cards and mechanical relays by the thousand.  we're talking 026 punches, 088 sorter, 083 collator, 407 "accounting machine" I think it was called, which contained a card reader, 30000 relays, 132-wheel print mech for continuous forms.  I was 12.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: e: R2 and REALs, What Do They Call it When ...?
> 
> Bet you had Core!
> 
> (Bet Craig remembers when the bottom fell out of the Core market.)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tracy Pierce
> > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:34 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] e: R2 and REALs, What Do They Call it
> > When ...?
> >
> > we had no RAM either, in fact no transistors, just hundreds
> > of mechanical relays.  cards were fun!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Neil
> > > Armstrong
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:31 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: e: R2 and REALs, What Do They Call it When ...?
> > >
> > > On 14/01/2010 3:46 PM, John Pitman wrote:
> > >
> > > In classic Monty Python:
> > >
> > > You had 2Mb Drives, my first job we didn't have any drives
> > just cards. :)
> > >
> > > Neil
> > >
> > > > Second system I worked on:-
> > > >
> > > > IBM 1440 - 8k RAM, 2 x 2MB drives, card reader, line printer
> > > >
> > > > EVERY byte counted all the time.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > John Pitman
> > >
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