Bouroughs/IBM docs

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Aug 29 22:02:35 1997

Kevin McQuiggin wrote:

> Hi Marvin:
>
> Okay. Presumably if the other fellow takes the card decks then he could
> probably be convinced to make them available to others on the net with a
> need.
>
> I don't have a card reader, but getting and preserving the programs is
> more important, there are a few collectors with card readers who could
> read the decks later.

I just saw a post from Jim who has a card reader that can do the job. BTW, I
was thinking about these posts a while ago and I should point out that I
have no idea what these punched card programs are. They may be original
programs or they could well be something that was written by the guy who
died and he kept. Anyway you or anyone else here knows how to tell if these
are submitted programs or actual programs for the computers? It never
occurred to me that these might be the way the early programs were
distributed ... I had always figured they just got passed around on floppy
disks :). If these are the actual distributed programs, they have just
jumped WAY up on the priority list! Glad I mentioned them as I almost
didn't. Whew!
Received on Fri Aug 29 1997 - 22:02:35 BST