From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] [Simh] Of DEC and cards
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:37:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PyFsppsP76fjqTJsHz_0zvPFPx76Oq1CnZOiUs5bOE1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b84c8230-4b99-da0c-aa08-3455ece15e58@ieee.org>
One last reply here, but CCing COFF where this thread really belongs...
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:34 PM Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
> OTOH, and probably more consistent with your experience, card equipment was
>
> almost unheard of when the DEC HW ran Unix...
>
You're probably right about that Tim, but DEC world was mostly
TOPS/TENEX/ITS and UNIX. But you would think that since a huge usage of
UNIX systems were as RJE for IBM gear at AT&T. In fact, that was one of
the 'justifications' if PWB. I'm thinking of the machine rooms I saw in
MH, WH and IH, much less DEC, Tektronix or my university time. It's funny,
I do remember a lot of work to emulate card images and arguments between
the proper character set conversions, but I just don't remember seeing actual
card readers or punches on the PDP-11s, only on the IBM, Univac and CDC
systems.
As other people have pointed out, I'm sure they must have been around, but
my world did not have them.
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