Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.

[David Morrison - Corporate]

OK, Walter, that was a gutsy move, holding down a card in the key punch machine!

Here's another one:  paper tape that was made of mylar.  We booted up one of our computers from paper tape each morning; the paper tape would only last a few times.  So, we'd generate the same thing on a mylar version of the tape, which would last much longer.

And yes, I remember removable disks: ours were 10 platters that held 1 megabyte each, I think.

David Morrison
McBride Electric

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Walter Murray
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:30 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.


2005-04-25T21:24-07:00

David wrote:

> I recall that my favorite key was the DUP key, where you'd DUPlicate
one 
> card to another by holding down that key while  the punches were
copied 
> from one column to the next until you reached the column where you
needed 
> to fix your error. I can't remember if you could insert a missing 
> character and then DUPlicate from there to the end, or not.

Yes, you could insert a missing character, but it was not supported.
:-)

You would duplicate up to the missing character.  Then firmly press down
on the card at the read station and hold it against the bed so that the
rollers could not advance it while you punched the missing character
into the card at the punch station.  Then let go of the first card and
DUP to the end of the card.  Voila!

Walter  




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