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echo: os2prog
to: Harry Bush
from: Shmuel Metz
date: 1996-08-18 11:57:52
subject: PL/I for OS/2

On 08-14-96 (05:03) Harry Bush wrote to David Noon

HB>I think nowadays it might be simply strange for everybody.  Technology
  >has changed.  No more huge 9-track tapes with only 1600 bpi...

Not only has IBM stopped shipping at anything lower than 6250, they're
encouraging use of cartridge only.

HB>Wow, how do you get punched cards into PC?

There are card readers that will attach to an ISA bus, but not for me
. I suppose that if you absolutely have to do it then you grit your
teeth and spend the money, but IMHO they're far too expensive for what
they do.


     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
     Systems Programmer & JOAT
     Atid/2
     Team OS/2
     Team PL/I
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