>> 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.
Nice - I could offer 9 hole paper tape over a (modified)
T100 Teletype on my Kim - before that I used paper and
pencile until the program was 'finished' and than an PROM
burner for archiving - superiour accestime :)
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Sat Jun 20 1998 - 17:42:08 BST