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Originally Posted by bullet
I like the idea of an Old Computer Farts Home. It is good to be alive.
I knew ChemEs doing process control work with PDPs. I also remember holding 80 column cards in an 029 IBM keypunch machine to achieve an accounting overpunch for debit/credit for somebody's COBOL program. All running on an IBM DOS machine with removable diskpacks.
Good to be alive. 
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I visited at the
http://www.computerhistory.org/ a few years back when they had a working Babbage engine on display.
As I walked thru the other exibits, I woud say "We had one of those (at work)", over and over and over (But we never had that Cray

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