Eric Smith wrote:
>>http://www.classiccmp.org/jwest/card/
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>I think the other HP BASIC mark sense card on Doug Jones' site is for
>a standalone batch oriented (non-timesharing) system that ran on the
>2116. I vaguely recall hearing that our school district had previously
>replaced such a batch system with the HP 2000C TSB system that I used.
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>The story as I heard it was that they started with a single mark-sense
>reader at the central site, so the card decks were physically sent there,
>and the listings sent back, then they put mark-sense readers and modems
>at the individual schools, but the listings still were sent back. So
>TSB using ASR33 teletypes in the schools was a huge advance.
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>Eric
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That wasn't the Portland Or. school distirict, Around 1969-70, was it ?
Jim Davis.
Received on Mon Feb 14 2005 - 22:51:11 GMT