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. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info