12 Oct
1997
12 Oct
'97
3:22 p.m.
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:48:31 -0400 (EDT), you said:
I received a bit of mail from a buddy:
I used an 029 (and a 129) in the mid-sixties to punch cards to be used
on an IBM 360 series (mainframe) computer. (I wasted *hundreds* of
cards trying to make my FORTRAN progs work correctly.)
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Barry Peterson bm_pete(a)ix.netcom.com
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
1) IBM 29 card punch + writer machine fitted into
a desk
Does anyone have any information on these two things? My guess is that the
IBM card machine may be pre-computer (programmed by plugboards, etc.).