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Re: Operating system name

I think of tabulators as being completely mechanical. For instance, Monroe had a tabulator that used replaceable tab-stop bars, one for each different form a company used.

After those, but before computers, were punch-card tab machines that had plug-wire boards. These reprogram-able boards had series of holes, much like a telephone switchboard. One created different output by wiring different patterns, one board per form.


On 5/3/2017 3:41 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
It goes back decades before that Bill - as I noted earlier all of this dates back to tabulators. RPG in its initial form was just a means to replace the functionality of tabulators with them new fangled computers.


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