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Reply To: | Peter Chong Sr. Systems Analyst (MRP/ERP) |
Date: | Wed, 19 May 1999 10:18:52 -0700 |
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Looks like those model number made by UNIVAC and sell by IBM Logo?
Cheers
Peter C.
Steve BARRETT <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF4011F307B@dogbert.csillc.com...
> John Pearce wrote:
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> 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.
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> --------------------Reply Separator----------------------
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> Yep, storage was a big room down the hall filled with card tray
> cabinets. The computer operator was actually part of the
> process. I remember pushing a cart loaded with card trays from
> sorter, to collator, to reproducer, to IBM 1401 using a procedure
> flowchart for the processing steps.
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> If you needed more storage extents, you rearanged the trays in
> the cabinets.
>
> Steve Barrett
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> Steven P. Barrett
> Systems Analyst
> Fairfax County Public Library
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> --- The opinions expressed here are mine alone. ---
>
> "Life is dear to every living thing, the worm that
> crawls upon the grownd will struggle for it."
> (from Solomon Northup's - Twelve Years a Slave, at -
> http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/northup/northup.html)
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