On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > > 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. > Well, I'm not as aged and decrepit as you and Bill, but I, too, remember card punches, rapid boot drums, and file systems that took seven or eight 14" removable disk cabinets that were about three times the size of today's PCs each and held I don't remember how much data. I took my first programming class in Fortran V with card punches and printouts on a CDC 6600 mainframe, in 1974.... mhr