[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[keith smith]

Hard to fathom, however there were a lot of people spending lots of time and money on muscle cars back then also. 



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--- On Tue, 1/18/11, TR <trexx at pobox.com> wrote:

From: TR <trexx at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8:49 PM



On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

How much did the Altair cost and what did you pay for your house in 1974?



20,000 for the house and about 500 on the altair, but I must have put  two thousand hours in to getting it to the point a nongeek would at least say thats interesting 

So by today's dollars about $7000 and a years effort.





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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 1/18/11, TR <trexx at pobox.com> wrote:


From: TR <trexx at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>

Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 8:13 PM

In '69 I did not work on IBM iron, but I designed and built and simple Half-Adder that I made in to a calculator and then with point to point wiring made a computer of sorts.  Building various Popular Electronic projects until building an Altair around 74.  even had an article in Pop-Elect around that time, can't remember what is was,  a simple light controller



TR

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com> wrote:


 



OK, who among this list learned how to
wire/program a IBM 407 accounting machine? Or a 557 card reproducer (I think it
was a 557, may be 559 too many years ago). That was a lot of fun!! J



 

Ed

 









From:
tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of keith smith



Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
7:39 PM

To: Tucson Free Unix Group

Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards
and paper tape.



 


 
  
  

  You just pulled in the entire list.

  

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  Keith Smith

  

  --- On Tue, 1/18/11, Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com> wrote:


  

  From: Ed Wilson <debed at debed.com>

  Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

  To: angussf at geoapps.com, "'Tucson Free Unix Group'"
  <tfug at tfug.org>

  Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7:35 PM
  
  So which of you folks had a Commodore 64?

  

  Ed

  

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  From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf
  Of

  Angus Scott-Fleming

  Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:20 PM

  To: Tucson Free Unix Group

  Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

  

  On 18 Jan 2011 at 15:57, Jim Secan  wrote:

  

  > UA still on punch cards by 73-74?  

  

  Long after that, I did some statistics at the UA using punch-cards, and I

  think 

  that was in '78 or '79.  

  

  > Although, I was still feeding punch cards to an IBM 360 at UCLA in the

  > mid-1970s (still have some of those decks, too). 

  

  Finally parted with mine a few years ago. [sigh].

  

  --

  Angus Scott-Fleming

  GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona

  1-520-290-5038

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