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May 1999, Week 3

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"Peter Chong Sr. Systems Analyst (MRP/ERP)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter Chong Sr. Systems Analyst (MRP/ERP)
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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:
>
> 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.
>
> --------------------Reply Separator----------------------
>
> 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.
>
> If you needed more storage extents, you rearanged the trays in
> the cabinets.
>
> Steve Barrett
>
>     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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