19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
2:15 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
Well I guess this dates me, but , 80 column punch cards. Do
not bend ,spindle or mutilate.
The only benefit was when a few years later on my advertising
distribution company was delivering a promo for a large supermarket
firm that shall go unnamed, cards that had some prizes included.
The cards were put thru an interpreter at the check-out counter
and some were winning cards if you had the item mentioned in
your basket. Since I could read the cards we pulled some of the
better prizes and presented them at different stores.
" Oh I won a Steak ? Thats great , I just happen to have one in
my basket."
We lived more dangerously in those days.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
--
First??? DECtape, 1 inch wide on the 4 inch reels from the PDP-8 in the
OMSI computer labs. On occasion 8 level paper tape from the teletypes that
we used to access a GE time-share system in Seattle.
And... I still have gear in the collection that can read both! B^}
-jim