23 Sep
1998
23 Sep
'98
11:37 a.m.
On 23 Sep 98 at 12:43, Marty wrote:
During my last year in high school in Kensington, Maryland in 1969 an
IBM 1103 was installed with about twenty terminals for student use. I
never used the 1103 although I 'majored' in data processing which
included IBM EAM (Electronic Accounting Machine) plug board wiring and
operation (sorting, collating, keypunching, verifying, gang punching
printing etc. etc. by the way, if anybody has an old plug board
available for sale or trade I would be most grateful). I LOVED the old
punch card gear. It was fun wiring plug boards.
Marty
I'll second that. I worked as a "Junior IBM Operator " for a large
government
agency here in Toronto in the mid-fifties. I think I still have callouses from
"hipping" the cards so they wouldn't jam up the sorters. Wiring the plug
boards
gave me an appreciation of what you could do with routing signals and
processes. With IC s a lot of the magic is gone.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com