Murray Lesser was saying to Leonard Erickson-

ML> Hi Leonard--
ML> 
ML>  DS> (Now we get the OS/2 users who punched cards in the past to enter
data
ML>  DS> into computers)
ML> 
ML> LE>Not only have I punched cards, I've toggled bootstrap code into a
ML>   >mainframe.
ML> 
ML> LE>And as far as card punching goes, how many of you know what a "drum
ML>   >card" for a keypunch does?
ML> 
ML>     You _are_ a latecomer!  When I started (on the predecessor to the
ML> IBM Card Programmed Electronic Calculator), our keypunch didn't
ML> have a "drum card" because it wasn't intended for volume data input.
ML>  In those days, "computers" were people and "calculators" were
ML> machines.  I don't remember when the nomenclature changed.

Hi Murray-

Does this predate the IBM 650?  I started my programming there with
Bell (after ATT Labs) code, the first available interpreter for that
machine, in 1958, right out of school.

There wasn't any OS/2 around then, that I can remember :-)

Fred Springfield
Plymouth, MN


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