28 Aug
2008
28 Aug
'08
9:29 p.m.
On Thu, August 28, 2008 12:53, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:17 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Started being paid to write software in 1969, for an IBM 1401. 026 and 029 card punches for me, too; I preferred the keyboard touch on the 026 by quite a lot. 14" five platter removable pack disk drives that stored...around 1.5MB if I'm remembering right (can't seem to find the info online quickly, either; might be as high as 2MB).
7204 is a number stuck in my mind. Size? Model? Oh well, really puny, regardless.
I believe the drives in my case were 1311's. Or else 1310, but I think that was the controller. 1403 printer, of course, and 1402 reader/punch. Reading cards with copper brushes at 800 cards per minute.
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