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Old Computers
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LadyScozz | Report | 29 May 2014 11:57 |
and today's kids |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 29 May 2014 15:40 |
omg this thread just made me think of the old tap recorders |
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Graham | Report | 29 May 2014 17:18 |
Tap recorders? Are they used to record morse code? :-S |
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Ron2 | Report | 29 May 2014 20:05 |
Cor! Great stuff. Mentioned "Punch Cards" - our council main frame used such in 1960s/70s. I used to punch my own cards in mid 1970s to enable me to obtain info relevant to my job at the local college. Bought son a ZX81 (Sinclair?) in 80s very unreliable but interesting |
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LadyScozz | Report | 30 May 2014 00:17 |
When my niece was young, she saw some of my old LPs.............. |
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supercrutch | Report | 30 May 2014 00:29 |
The 1981 census was completed using punch cards, I know because my team coded, punched and verified a large percentage. |
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Kense | Report | 30 May 2014 07:50 |
When I started using computers we used punched paper tape to input programs. The first computer I used had its own building to accomodate it. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 30 May 2014 08:22 |
When I joined a well known High St Bank in 1970 they were reaching the end of the program to convert over to computerised ledgers for customer accounts. I think the aim was for all branches to be converted before decimalisation the following year. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 30 May 2014 13:11 |
From 1956 to 1961 I worked for the Admiralty wage department. We had a huge mainframe computer, really noisy and all the clock card information was put onto punch tape. It seemed really modern then. (I didn't actually work on the computers. However later, in the 70s I did some home working putting information onto punch cards. |
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Kense | Report | 30 May 2014 19:29 |
For anyone really interested in old computers, the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is worth a visit. |