Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Old Computers

> Posted by: "Adam Shaiken" ajshaiken@gmail.com
> Hey Son!,
> We had a few of those left(from the war I guess! actually they were still in
> use by the news services-the UPI the AP wire and others were still utilizing
> it.) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1978 when I first began to explore
> computers and programming. We had an IBM 360/370 Mainframe and PDP 1135/45
> running the local timesharing system and we were connected to a the Central
> timesharing system sown in Long Beach. Some times an assignment would have
> the students using the punch tape mode of inputting to a computer but mostly
> we were utilizing the new fangled IMB punch cards(80 characters wide by ?

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Cheers,
Mike
;-)

> lines and oh those 'chads' !!!) for inputting data into the IBM 360/370
> Mainframe. Actually we also could use terminals but certain professors would
> require that you were still competent at using all resources even antiquated
> or soon to become antiquated technology!!.

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