On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
> >Why hasn't anyone else piped up about the usefulness and reliability
> >of using punched cards and paper tape to archive the mailing list
> >as well as compose replies? My mail header may claim to say I use
> >Eudora, but I actually use an ASR-33, sending tapes to my ISP for delivery.
>
> This makes me curious, anybody have, or care about the Keydisc consoles
> that replaced keypunch for a lot of data entry?
Well... while I don't have one (tho it would look kool next to my '029), I
do have (fond?) memories of working on one back in my data entry days...
As well as some interesting(?) key to tape machines when I was doing data
entry at Farmers Insurance.
(eek! another bit of my sordid past leaks out...)
...and does anyone besides me think that the IBM 129 on eBay with the
$1500.00 reserve (I think thats the amount I saw quoted) is just a bit
'out there'?
-jim
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