[rollei_list] Re: Storage Media [OT]
- From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 17:23:34 -0400
i bet of all digital media, cards and paper tape will outlive magetic tape,
floppy disks, maybe even some optical disks. when visitors come ot our
planet in 1,000,000 years, they'll be reverse-engineering COBOL code to
figure out what earthlings were about...
-rei
On May03 13:40, Jeff Kelley wrote:
> I spent several years as a Weather Specialist for the US Air Force in the
> 1970s. We were using paper tape to enter and transmit data from weather
> balloon transponders. After the tape was punched via teletype keyboard,
> we'd run the tape through a reader that transmitted the data to Oklahoma
> City to the mainframe systems at Air Force Weather Headquarters.
>
> The civilian weather service was using the Data General NOVA 1220 computer
> so I got use that too. It had a huge "disc pack" that must have been
> about 15inches in diameter...lots of flashing lights too. I don't recall
> its storage capacity - probably a few "k?"
>
> Jim, in case you didn't get my private e-mail...thanks for the info you
> XEROX'd and sent!
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Jim Brick <[1]jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I still have a box of punch cards I created when I was a systems
> programmer in Lockheed's 7090s and 7094s. Plus several Memorex 1/2"
> tapes containing the OS (IBSYS) with my changes. I also have the first
> OS (COS for Card OS) for our first 360/30, which was one of the first
> delivered from IBM. It's a deck of cards about 4" thick. Then came TOS
> (Tape OS). I was the system programmer that brought up the 7094 emulator
> in the 360/65 (a mix of hardware & firmware) for Lockheed.
>
> This all started in 1965.
>
> Tough to remember all of the crazy stuff I did way back then - but I
> didn't learn as I'm still doing it!
>
> :-)
> Jim
>
> On May 3, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>
> Now you're talking. I still have the IBM punch cards I created for a
> science project 45 years ago... any body got a machine to read them or
> computer to run them?
>
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