On Fri, August 29, 2008 07:58, R P Herrold wrote: > > Reading closely the rest of the thread, I 'programmed' > plugboards on 5xx series unit record machines, ran 026, 027, > and 029's; ran the 13 pocket sorter; later wrote tape and > print spooling deivers for our 1401, and all that. I don't > miss them either. The first place I worked had a card-sorter and one plug-programmable device that I never programmed. I really should have, but I was busy learning other things, and didn't quite notice that it was the tail end of a dying era and I could get an amusing punch on my ticket. I'm not even sure what it did exactly any more; it wasn't the tabulator because it didn't have a printer. > you win ;) -- I don't want to be older, and in my head, I'm > still in my twenties. Oh yes. Very definitely. -- 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