Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 15:00:44 CST 2005
We had four 029's and one lonely 026 where I worked. The 026 was stuck back in between the tape drives and the CPU and was really only used for punching JCL cards. I think the 026 later was moved down into the basement along with the sorter and interpretter and other card handling equipment. We continued doing data entry on the 029's and into the 2501 card reader though. The 029's were much better at the verification step that all the data entry had to go through. We were still punching some cards up until about 1993 I think when everything was switched over to CRT entry. In 1996 I got to push the old 4361 mainframe CPU and some of it's associated controllers onto a truck headed to a precious metal recycler to be disassembled/melted down. I think the 1403 printer, the 2501 card reader and the keypunches were all sold intact to somebody though. Perhaps as spares or for parts. The 2501 was a great step up from the 1442 card read punch that we previously had. The 2501 used LIGHT to read the cards where as the 1442 used steel brushes to read the punched holes. The steel brushs were always getting damaged, particularly if you didn't release them before yanking out a jammed card..... I'm feeling very OLD right now. GK On 12/29/05, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi all, not Friday yet, but ... > > Joel Spolsky is sometimes rambling a bit but his recent blurb is quite entertaining: > > The Perils of JavaSchools > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html > > He is not nice with the Java boys but what do we care. > > Note, however, the picture of the IBM 026 Key Punch. > This is before my time but click on it and find a new link: > > http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/029.html > > This is the 029 Key Punch which we used at the technical university here. Oh boy, did we punch some cards! I can still remember the unique feeling of the keys and the massive low-frequence sound for every punch. What a piece of machinery! > > Also, note the link to the Blub Programmers and this quote: > > Lisp is worth learning for the profound > enlightenment experience you will have > when you finally get it; that experience > will make you a better programmer for > the rest of your days, even if you never > actually use Lisp itself a lot. > > I have only "tasted" LISP. All I remember is a feeling of the wonderful different syntax. > Has anyone here learned and used it? > > /gustav > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com