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Old 06-11-2015, 08:42 PM   #790
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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.
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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