Walter Maxwell wrote:
When I mentioned the 8" disks I was referring to my own personal computer era.
While working at RCA in the early 70s I had others write the programs I needed,
and they punched the cards for me, so I was there then also, but not the extent
you were. Thus you were way ahead of me in computer use.

Wrote and punched my first computer program in BELL on punched cards for an
IBM-650. The computer filled, as I remember, with dual triodes, was huge,
but the air-conditioning to keep it cool was bigger. The only permanent
memory was a magnetic drum, used for program and data. (Remember head crashes?)
It used the bi-quinary number system (like an abacus?).

Remember when there was a tube checker in every grocery store?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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