On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, William Donzelli wrote:
Of the MANY
29s at GWU, only one had the word "interpret" on it's name
label, and the ability to interpret a deck of already punched cards.
All of the others could only intrepret what it was punching.
Yes, I think that was actually a different IBM model than the 029, but
it was essentially an 029.
The proper model number escapes me right now.
I've seen various anecdotal references to an interpret option for the
029, but nothing specific. There WAS an optional interpret feature for
the 129, as shown in my maintenance manuals. My 129, unfortunately, does
not have it installed.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/