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Subject: Re: Forgotten anniversaries

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Ian

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Date Posted: 08:29:45 06/29/15 Mon
In reply to: byte mangler 's message, "Re: Forgotten anniversaries" on 21:31:07 06/27/15 Sat

>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

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