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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:20

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On 2018-03-22, David Jones <djon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My first hands on one was a Wang 2200 in the early/mid 1970's.
> My school would borrow one for a few weeks at a time.
>
> Then built an Cosmac Elf based on the 1802.  One of these days,
> I'd love to see or get my hands on a Wang 2200 again.

My uncle took me to his place of work, where I got to play with a
Univac 1004.  This was like an electronic version of the IBM 407,
still programmed by plugboard but with 961 6-bit bytes of real core.
Its card reader and printer ran at 400 cards/lines per minute.
This particular machine used 90-column cards, although an 80-column
model was available.  (The card reader could handle both, you just
needed a different punch.)  I still have the manuals.

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