> At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote: >>New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did >>you guys carry around to start out with? >> I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as >>some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had >>been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette >>rewinds it, it is still readable.

> First??? DECtape, 1 inch wide on the 4 inch reels from the PDP-8 in the > OMSI computer labs. On occasion 8 level paper tape from the teletypes that > we used to access a GE time-share system in Seattle.

Well I guess this dates me, but , 80 column punch cards. Do not bend ,spindle or mutilate. The only benefit was when a few years later on my advertising distribution company was delivering a promo for a large supermarket firm that shall go unnamed, cards that had some prizes included. The cards were put thru an interpreter at the check-out counter and some were winning cards if you had the item mentioned in your basket. Since I could read the cards we pulled some of the better prizes and presented them at different stores. " Oh I won a Steak ? Thats great , I just happen to have one in my basket." We lived more dangerously in those days.