12 Apr
2024
12 Apr
'24
1:53 p.m.
On Apr 12, 2024, at 9:48 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I suppose. Or magnetic cards. There were other devices that used magnetic cards, like
the Olivetti Programma -- world's first programmable calculator. For that matter,
magnetic cards are still around, they are called credit cards. :-)
paul
Yes. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell . By the standards of the time it was an
unusually high capacity storage device, way faster than a room full of tapes and much
larger than the 2311 disk drive.
Fascinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that
effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles?