10 May
2015
10 May
'15
11:38 a.m.
On May 10, 2015, at 2:36 PM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, but I think that even in that application card readers were not all that common.
The batch card model was more an IBM thing, with DEC systems tending more to terminal
input.
paul
Correct. And a number of DEC operating systems
had card reader support. I haven?t seen them very often on DEC machines, but for example
RSTS can handle at least 026 and 029 card codes, and some vague memory says there may have
been a ?1401? table as well.
This should come as no surprise.
We often think that DEC machines were all doing cool things like
running railroads or controlling high energy physics experiments, but
a large number of PDP-11s spent their lives running plain old business
software.