[AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 29 19:58:27 CST 2005


I remember once putting in a job into a service bureau in Ottawa, a day 
before government year end
looking at the job queue and then going to watch Lawrence of Arabia at 
the movie theater next door
15 minutes after the movie ended, I got my printout.

Tesiny, Ed wrote:

>Confused.  we for the most part only dealt with EBCDIC, this is going back to 1976, a date which i BELIEVE PREDATES A LOT OF LISTERS. Damn caps lock . Sorry!
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>	I believe the 026's only punched BCD and the 029 EBCDIC
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>	Tesiny, Ed wrote:
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>	>You're not alone, we had three 029s where all our research projects data
>	>were entered and verified.  Then we took the cards up to the university
>	>to read them into the UNIVAC 1100.  We used dial-ups ( 300 baud) from
>	>our office (DecWriters I think) to get to the mainframe at the
>	>university.  It was nice, however, on  a sunny summer day to send a
>	>print job to university where they had a little beer garden ;-))
>	>
>	>Ed Tesiny
>	>EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us
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>	>>I'm feeling very OLD right now.
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