Programming on metal cylinders?

[Anders Nelson]

This one?: https://youtu.be/YyxGIbtMS9E

Probably not.
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 1:09 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 4/21/19 7:11 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > I was assisting an older client the other day, a former Yale prof,
> > and he's been programming since the late 1950s.
> >
> > He knew people who worked at Bletchley Park.  He also mentioned he
> > knew people who had manually scribed their programs on some sort of metal
> > cylinder.  Which computer system was that?
> >
> > Part of what he'd like me to help with is a circa 2001 Compaq / DIGITAL
> > version of a FORTRAN programming environment.  He had not yet found
> > the installation media so we could try to get it running on Windows 10.
> > I wonder if it will...
>
> Could this be something that uses the same technology as a drum program
> card on a keypunch?
>
> --Chuck
>
>