I worked at university data center in the 80s and we used the 80 punch cards for student data storage. It was loud and slow.

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Rixter wrote to KnightMare <=-

I worked at university data center in the 80s and we used the 80 punch cards for student data storage. It was loud and slow.

I started off with Commodore CBM 4032s (similar to a PET) with a
cassette drive in high school, but our teacher brought in an old punch
card data processing system for us all to play with, enter a job on
punch cards and see it run.

We wondered why, he asked us to trust him. Now, I get to say, "When I
started out on Punched Cards..." :)

Smart man, he was.



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I started off with Commodore CBM 4032s (similar to a PET) with a
cassette drive in high school, but our teacher brought in an old punch
card data processing system for us all to play with, enter a job on
punch cards and see it run.

We wondered why, he asked us to trust him. Now, I get to say, "When I
started out on Punched Cards..." :)

Smart man, he was.

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We have come a long way in asp short time.

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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rixter on Wed Sep 18 2024 06:27:00

...CBM 4032s (similar to a PET)...

4032s /were/ PETs. The name change was a marketing move to appeal to the business market, same strategy Tandy used for their TRS-80 Model III onward.

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Mortar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

...CBM 4032s (similar to a PET)...

4032s /were/ PETs. The name change was a marketing move to appeal to
the business market, same strategy Tandy used for their TRS-80 Model
III onward.

True. I always thought of the PET as the 8k, small keyboard on the
right, tape drive on the left models but, when googling it, see some
CBMs labeled as PETs.



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Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Rixter to KnightMare on Wed Sep 18 2024 03:32 am

I worked at university data center in the 80s and we used the 80 punch cards for student data storage. It was loud and slow.

Painfully slow, at that!

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