16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
10:47 p.m.
> 26-1401?
[suspect remembrance of RS part
number for cassette cable for TRS80 (also
IBM 5150]
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Charlie Carothers wrote:
Or a printing keypunch interfaced to a discrete
germanium transistor
CPU? ;-)
or an 026 interfaced to a IBM 1401 (or the 1401 emulator on a 1620) :-)
40 years ago, at NASA GSFC NSSDC (Bldg 26), I spent some time toiling over
a Gerber data digitizer. Line up the crosshairs using the big
etch-a-sketch knobs, stomp on the foot pedal, and the 026 would punch two
3 digit numbers. I have NO idea what the interface actually consisted of.
At the other end of the room, and probably NOT connected to it, were a
7094 and a 360/30; in other buildings were several 360/9x