From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:37:26 -0500 Subject: [COFF] [Simh] Of DEC and cards In-Reply-To: References: <6167693c-1608-47c2-b7cf-790dd0f6da49@snobol4.com> <20200213102754.0000119d@sky-visions.com> Message-ID: One last reply here, but CCing COFF where this thread really belongs... On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:34 PM Timothe Litt 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: