From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:54:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <031501d1850b$8477e740$8d67b5c0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323070229.GG64087@server.rulingia.com>
Yes, the model 82 SORTER could sort into 13 bins based on a single column
on the card (there are 12 rows in each column, the 13th is the reject bin).
A special selector deals with two holes punched in the column (letters and
symbols).
The collator (Typically a model 85) had fewer bins (4) but it could make
more intelligent decisions (based on the wiring of a plug board) on how to
distribute to those bins. In addition, it had two card hoppers that
allowed you to merge two files of cards together.
The 514 Reproducing Punch allowed you to copy info from one deck onto other
cards in a programmed fashion. It could also be connected via a mongo
cable to the 402 Accounting machine that could read cards, do some math, and
either print or punch (via the 514) the results.
Even at the time I learned all this, it was rapidly becoming obsolete.
Our high school still used these monsters to do the attendance records.
In college, our registration procedure used those. I could tell by the way
they did it that they were using my old friend the "Interspersed master gang
punching).
Once out of college two of my subsequent jobs (one at BRL and one at
Rutgers) was to deep six all the card processing equipment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-18 0:48 Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 2:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-18 3:59 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 5:11 ` Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 17:45 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-18 8:42 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-18 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-18 17:12 ` scj
2016-03-18 17:45 ` Random832
2016-03-18 18:02 ` scj
2016-03-21 14:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 21:43 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-21 22:57 ` scj
2016-03-21 23:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-22 0:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 22:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 0:32 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 0:43 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-24 0:47 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 1:05 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-23 1:51 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-23 6:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 7:02 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-23 7:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 13:54 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2016-03-23 16:28 ` John Cowan
2016-03-23 8:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 11:07 ` Tony Finch
2016-03-21 12:06 ` John Cowan
2016-03-22 0:13 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-22 0:48 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 17:01 ` Pat Barron
2016-03-22 5:21 ` shawn wilson
2016-03-23 0:54 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:07 ` Clem Cole
[not found] <mailman.1.1458266402.23080.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-18 2:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-18 2:36 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-18 2:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-22 0:56 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 1:58 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <mailman.1.1458784801.4499.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-24 10:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 11:35 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 11:37 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 22:50 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-24 23:06 ` Johnny Billquist
[not found] ` <9CBDF635-2FC9-4855-8419-0413EC0336A7@centurytel.net>
2016-03-25 0:35 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 19:13 Nemo
2016-03-24 19:54 ` Milo Velimirović
2016-03-26 21:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 21:34 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 22:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-28 20:32 ` scj
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