mkg (03/10/83)
I just received a information bulletin from one of BTL's largest IBM comp centers that I'd like to share. With little (no?) fanfare, they announced that card reader and punch services will no longer be available. For the diehards who just have to use cards, they said the card readers on a few 3777 rje stations would be available. While the closest to punched cards some of the newest readers of the net will come is the one that comes with their phone bill, I'm sure that this news produces a tinge of nostalgia in those of us who have had the good? fortune to experience program development at the keypunch. Marsh Gosnell BTL Whippany
franka (03/11/83)
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tekcad!franka Mar 10 23:03:00 1983
God! What nostalgia?!? I was using card punches (and readers)
regularly, up to a year and a half ago (the only way for the people
where I was was working then to interface with an IBM 4341 still running
OS360!!!).
Frank Adrian
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P.S. Trust me, this was NOT at Tektronix.cly (03/11/83)
Ah, yes, no more punched cards. I remember when we switched over to IBM TSO and put all our files up on disk. Oh, the weeping and wailing from the folks that were afraid of losing their stuff (they were RIGHT!!). I guess the term "9-edge" will go out of existence. Carl Yaffey cbosgd!cly
presley (03/12/83)
Punched cards are still with us, unfortunately. We have some users who use object decks created back in 1972 (what worked ten years ago on the Honeywell still usually works); the source and the person who wrote the program are long gone. In many cases, the cards are still the originals.
iy47ab (03/13/83)
My father has a wonderful box of punched-card love notes he wrote to my mother when he was a student at UCLA 25 years ago... *sigh* how romantic! Lady Arwen