Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen

Bill,

I first learned computers on paper tape and punch cards.
My first computer job, in the us army, was paper tape and teletypes.
(at 110 baud).  tons of time on card sorters, accounting machines, almost all were programed via jumper cables, the IBM model 26 card punch, teletype terminals with paper tape (we actually used milar tape, which tended to 'eat' the punches).

My first job out of college was converting a system from transportation system from paper tape and punch cards to IBM 16x64 terminals under the Westi network software.

Those were some interesting days. 
The instant access to detailed interface information and communication protocols that we have today would have been godsends back then.

R. Williams



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Bill Hobson" <wrhobson@aol.com>
To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:13:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen

> Do you mean to tell me that there is another human on the planet that
> remembers what punched paper tape was? Holy smokes! (Sorry if this bothers
> anyone for being off-topic, but this is like finding your lost
> birth-mother!)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Price" <japrice@mindspring.com>
> To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
>
> > How 'bout them 45 baud Mod 28 teletypes... I remember installing the first
> > of the automated
> > routing boxes so they didn't have to punch a tape at a routing stating and
> > move it over to a
> > reader to send it out on it's next leg.....
> > John
> > My first computer 1976!
> >
> > On Saturday 02 January 2010 09:49:07 Gary Orpe wrote:
> >> Boy, that goes back in time. I remember marveling over the new 1200 baud
> >> modem that were on 3 plug in cards. Remember 110 baud, TTY days gone by?
> >> How did we ever manage major control systems at that rate? LOL
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary Orpe
> >>
> >> K6DWT (Keeping 6 Dancing Wild Tigers)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> >> [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:51 AM
> >> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> >> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork,
> >> Now:Helen
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:52:48PM -0800, Roger Poyner wrote:
> >> > > Accepted etiquette on the Internet has been to quote and reply as I
> >> > > do
> >> > > for at least the last 30 years. Yes, it's been around that long, and
> >> > > then some
> >> >
> >> > -----Problem is the internet hasn't been around that long.----
> >>
> >> It has indeed. You simply weren't around it then. It was around,
> >> connecting
> >> governments and academic institutions, in the early 1970s (then known as
> >> ARPANET), and switched to the TCP/IP protocols we all use now in 1983.
> >> ARPANET expanded dramatically, and its replacement (in management;
> >> nothing
> >> else really changed) by NSFNET in 1985, followed by NSFNET's opening to
> >> the
> >> commercial world in the early 1990s, produced the INternet we know today.
> >>
> >
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