RE: geezer remembrances (was spam fighting)

In 1967 I was programming on a "Decade 70" made by the Redcor Corporation
with paper tape "teletype like" input, paper tape output, and 2048 bytes of
"core memory." The cores were about the size of a U.S. 50 cent piece.

About 7 years later I "graduated" to a System/3 Model 6 with some disk for
the operating system, but the user data was stored on "ledger cards" with
one for each hotel guest, you would find the right card and feed it into the
ledger card reader, it would stop on the first blank line, allow you to put
in the current charge and then it would print out the new charge with a new
total, which it would record on the mag stripe on the back of the ledger
card, which is then put back in the "bucket" of ledger cards.

--  Charly Jones
--  Geezer in Gig Harbor

From: "Bruce Barrett" <bruce.barrett@pmigroup.com>

1401

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Nelson [mailto:p_nelson-br@pop.inil.com]

S/3 Mod 10 Card system...no disk

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Allen" <allenmark@nu-z.net>

> System 3 Model 12
>
> Mark Allen
> I.S. Manager
> Wilkes Telephone & Electric
> A Dycom Company
> Phone: (706) 678-9565
> Email: allenmark@nu-z.net
> http://www.nu-z.net
>
>
>
>
> :-----Original Message-----
> :From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> :
> :<oops, 37!>
> :
> :oops, 38 (couldn't resist since I go back as far as the S/38 -
> :actually to the S/34
> :
> :Chuck
> :

From "Programmers at Work" by Microsoft Press:

Interviewer: "Is studying computer science the
best way to prepare to be a programmer?"

Bill Gates: "No, the best way to prepare is to
write programs, and to study great programs
that other people have written. In my case, I
went to the garbage cans at the Computer
Science Center and I fished out listings of
their operating system."




Charly Jones
253 265-6244
Box 640
Gig Harbor
Washington USA
98335



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