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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] [Simh] Of DEC and cards
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 16:10:53 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002151607220.99730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PyFsppsP76fjqTJsHz_0zvPFPx76Oq1CnZOiUs5bOE1Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, Clem Cole wrote:

> [...] but  I just don't remember seeing actual card readers or punches 
> on the PDP-11s, only on the IBM, Univac and CDC systems. 

We had a small CDC card reader on our 11/40 for some reason; I wrote the 
driver, and it ran in two modes: straight binary i.e. all holes returned 
"as is", or NL-terminated ASCII.  I think the source of the cards was a
Cyber 72, but can't be sure.

-- Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-15  5:10 UTC|newest]

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2020-02-13 18:37             ` clemc
2020-02-13 20:33               ` litt
2020-02-15  5:10               ` dave [this message]
2020-02-13 19:57 jnc
2020-02-13 20:09 ` litt
2020-02-14  0:08 ` brad

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