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Originally Posted by Roger Parkinson
Paper tape. I always bring up paper tape when people mention punch cards. I did use punch cards, but one of the machines I worked on (in fact the first one that I could claim some actual professional association with) used paper tape. Ghastly stuff..
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I got really good at wrapping paper tape around my fingers in a figure eight roll so it would feed off correctly to the tape reader.
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Originally Posted by Roger Parkinson
The other story, which is much later, was about the Internet, although not the Internet we know today. I worked for Digital in the '80s and they had a private network connecting their offices using DECnet (gone now...).
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When I was writing my resume for my PMP certification my first IT project was upgrading from a PDP-11 with RS-232 VT 52/100 terminals to a Vax with DECnet.