Old farts and new Linux

[John Nichel]

david wrote:
> OK   ... My turn
> 
> In 1958, I graduated from a Marchand (sp?) 100-key calculator to an 
> IBM-650 to help me finish a physics lab data reduction. They had just 
> retired the Card-Punch Calculator (IBM 605, I think).  I wrote in BLISS 
> (Anyone remember that), and o-so-well recall the +70 1951 9999 setting, 
> and all that board-wiring.  Thence, on to a Datatron 220, IBM-709/7090 
> and 1401, dabbled with some PDP's and Tandem Non-Stops.  I've been 
> running Linux at home for my gateway for the past 4 years.  It's a lot 
> of fun.
> 
> The 12-punch made the card a "loader".
> 
> David Kurn

Imagine the horror on my father's face when he found me playing with the 
punch cards for the system that they kept all their business records on. :o

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