[Rhodes22-list] Ritual Mounting - 1401

[Hank]

... and three years later I was born!  Thanks for making me feel young
again!

Hank

On 8/16/06, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>
> Ronald Lipton wrote:
> > The 1401 was used for programming classes and the "computer club" in my
> > high school (class of '69)...
>
> OK, I have an entry in this virtual mas cojones match.
>
> I programmed the IBM 1401 at the Armstrong Research Labs in
> Lancaster, PA in FORTRAN in 1959.  IRRC, the disk drives were
> about 2' in diameter, enclosed in something that looked like
> a refrigerator with a glass front.  It was way before
> Winchester technology.
>
> The punched cards were keyed (in my case) on a gadget that
> looked like a credit card roller imprinter, except that it
> had one key for each row, and indexed thru the 80 columns.
>
> If you punched a hole in the wrong place, you pasted a little
> red sticker over the hole, and punched again.  And again.
> And again, until you got it right.
>
> That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.  Next?
> --
> Robert Skinner
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