'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

[Richard Soule]

5 level paper tape? or 8?  I used 5 myself.

There were times when we had to process stuff 'as fast as humanly
possible' (for the U.S. Air Force) and it would usually come my way
because I could get the message on to the tape faster than the modem
could read it.

As I was typing another operator would grab the end of the tape and feed
it into the modem.  While you could make a one or two character mistake
in the body of the message (which required you to 'back the tape up' and
strike out the mistakes), you could make 0 mistakes in the header and
footer. So not only did you have to type fast, you had to be very
accurate.

(This was in the late '80s, I am only 34!)

;-)

Rich

"Brian B. Riley (N1BQ) ListAcct" wrote:
> 
>         ... hell ... as long as we are reminiscing about the good old days. The
> first computer I worked on had a punched paper tape operating system that
> paged 128 byte chunks into a 256 byte core memory space. All the "i/o" was
> via a Flexowriter. The first major upgrade to the OS was when they started
> delivering it on mylar tape so it only had to be replaced once a month or so
> instead of twice a week!
> 
>    cheers ... bbr
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> bscott at ntisys.com
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:57 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: 'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, at 9:52pm, Erik Price wrote:
> > I remember my first Macintosh.  It did not come with a hard disk!  Just a
> > floppy drive.
> 
>   "Why, back in my day, we didn't even have keyboards.  We had to chisel the
> characters into the screen!  And we liked it!"
> 
>   ;-)
> 
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