22 Feb
2018
22 Feb
'18
10:39 p.m.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test
programs
96 col cards were the standard on the later 1700's
I had full access from midnight to 7AM but the shop was window only
until the next night.
Turn around time during the day could be as much as 4 hours.
-pete
11:33 p.m.
On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs
The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the
Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per
row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never
bothered to wrap my mind around).
--Chuck
11:39 p.m.
I can be more blunt, it was a total business failure mostly too late by
then key to tape or direct entry had started to come into the market and
could you imagine going to a place like an insurance company that had whole
floors full of card cabinets that only fit only 80 col cords and sell
them a different format ?
At least the round chad did not stick you your clothing or the carpets.
-pete
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk
wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs
The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the
Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per
row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never
bothered to wrap my mind around).
--Chuck
11:58 p.m.
Sounds like my days as a contract programmer for Burroughs; had the keys to the building
and the combination to the (large) machine room and did all my compiling etc. in the night
when I was the only one in the building. Some pictures somewhere of a much younger me at
the console of a B2700...
The good old days when no one worried about security...
Still have some blank 96 col cards somewhere, as well as edge-punched (PPT format) and 80
col tab cards.
m
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From: "Pete Lancashire via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 1:39 AM
Subject: damn ....
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs
96 col cards were the standard on the later 1700's
I had full access from midnight to 7AM but the shop was window only
until the next night.
Turn around time during the day could be as much as 4 hours.
-pete
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