3 Feb
2000
3 Feb
'00
10:40 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Well... while I don't have one (tho it would look kool next to my '029), I
do have (fond?) memories of working on one back in my data entry days...
As well as some interesting(?) key to tape machines when I was doing data
entry at Farmers Insurance.
(eek! another bit of my sordid past leaks out...)
...and does anyone besides me think that the IBM 129 on eBay with the
$1500.00 reserve (I think thats the amount I saw quoted) is just a bit
'out there'?
-jim
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Why hasn't
anyone else piped up about the usefulness and reliability
of using punched cards and paper tape to archive the mailing list
as well as compose replies? My mail header may claim to say I use
Eudora, but I actually use an ASR-33, sending tapes to my ISP for delivery.
This makes me curious, anybody have, or care about the Keydisc consoles
that replaced keypunch for a lot of data entry?