First personal storage media...

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Fri Jun 19 21:15:02 1998

> 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.
>
> And... I still have gear in the collection that can read both! B^}
>
> -jim
>
 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.

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Fri Jun 19 1998 - 21:15:02 BST