1 Mar
2026
1 Mar
'26
1:13 p.m.
On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 13:13 -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
I saw the ~5 drawers of punched cards that they used
for this. I was
mortified at my mistake and expected that I was in BIG trouble.
Apparently the restore took most of the day.
It took all day because the card reader on the 1130 was REALLY slow. My
first full-time job was as a 1401 operator. The 1402 could read 600
cards per minute, five minutes for a 3,000-card tray, 25 minutes for
five of them.