In days of yore...

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Author: No commercials, just occasional ...
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 1990 23:22

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Speaking of lost moments of musical glory...

When a student at Penn State, I spent time with some of the wiser
users of the Computer Center (circa 1968!).  Being before time-sharing,
the majority of a system user's time was spent seated at an IBM 029
keypunch machine creating THE DECK that would be submitted for
processing on the 360/67.

In the room with the myriad keypunch machines was a card-fed line
printer (a 1702? maybe?) for printing and proofing your deck before
submission.

It was somewhat of a tradition for one of the more seasoned users to
entertain the new users of the facility by "printing" the rather
large deck of cards that caused the printer to play a lengthy rendition
of "ANCHORS AWEIGH".

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