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Subject: Re: Forgotten anniversaries

Author:
byte mangler

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Date Posted: 21:31:07 06/27/15 Sat
In reply to: Boyd Percy 's message, "Re: Forgotten anniversaries" on 23:31:41 05/12/15 Tue

>In June of this year, it will be 50 years since I
>started college. We didn't have any electronics
>available, just the written word. I remember at
>registration we had to collect IBM punch cards for our
>classes so I know there were computers involved. A
>daylong hassle. The first year I thought the toughest
>thing about college was registration process and the
>interminable waiting in long lines. This fall my
>grandson will start college and I wonder sometimes if
>he could survive without a smartphone.

Computers were definitely a part of the picture in 1965. At that time there was NO interactive interface, but the punch cards were almost definitely destined for a computer system running batch programs.

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Ian
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Date Posted: 08:29:45 06/29/15 Mon

>Computers were definitely a part of the picture in
>1965. At that time there was NO interactive
>interface, but the punch cards were almost definitely
>destined for a computer system running batch programs.

Absolutely. In May 1965 I started as a trainee programmer. IBM 1401 system, 16000 (yes, decimal 16K) character (6 bit characters) memory, 2 disk drives each with 1 million characters of storage on removable disk packs, 4 tape drives, card reader and card punch. All programs were loaded from cards. Input data originated as cards too.

Ian