Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers

Subject	Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers
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From	"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net>
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Date	2024-08-19 23:59 -0400
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On 8/18/24 11:27 AM, Don_from_AZ wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
> 
>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:01:12 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>
>>>     Hmm ... what was good in the very early 60s ?
>>>     IBM had a number of offerings, esp it's new and great System/360. The
>>>     article did not specify WHAT 'ancient' computers.
>>
>> Depending on how literally you want to take 'Kennedy administration' it
>> would be a 7000 hopefully. At least that one had transistors.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20200119162242/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
>> big-brother-7074-is-watching-you/
>>
>> A contemporary article with a chilling vision of the future:
>>
>> "Eventually, large corporations could also be plugged into the system.
>> Computers thousands of miles apart could talk taxes without any numbskull
>> human interference. Banks could be hooked in, too, reporting who is
>> getting interest payments. Real-estate and stock-market computers might
>> tattle on who is making money. Machines in charity organizations could
>> reveal amounts of donations. And hospital computers could report on
>> individual medical costs."
>>
>>
>> System/360 was announced in '64 but RPI had one of the first 360/30s in
>> '65 when I took my first programming class in FORTRAN IV. Kennedy was shot
>> in '63.
> 
> I was at RPI from '64 to '68 working on my BSEE. Took that FORTRAN
> class. Code your program on coding sheets, punch it onto cards, put the
> cards into the bin for processing, come back later for the printout. I
> remember a sign on the input bin to remind you how the cards had to be
> oriented: 'TOPLEFUP' (top left, face up). Ah, those were the days!


   HA ! Boy does THAT seem familiar !!!   :-)

   Didn't hurt to bring gifts for the guys in charge
   of the 'bin' either ... they'd do your cards first.

   The gods in the freezing-cold room with all the real
   hardware ... you never got to talk to them.

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Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-17 22:01 -0400
  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-08-18 02:24 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-17 23:07 -0400
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Louis Krupp <lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid> - 2024-08-26 13:29 -0600
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2024-08-21 19:25 +0800
      Ancient Linux (was: Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-08-21 12:37 +0000
  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-18 03:45 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-18 00:52 -0400
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> - 2024-08-18 08:27 -0700
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-19 23:59 -0400
        Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-20 04:39 +0000
          Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> - 2024-08-20 07:47 -0700
            Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-08-20 18:28 +0000
              Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-20 19:27 +0000
                Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 07:35 +0000
            Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-20 19:16 +0000
            Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 07:34 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-19 02:01 +0000
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-19 20:59 +0000
        Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-19 21:34 -0400
          Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 07:32 +0000
  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-18 17:26 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2024-08-19 11:25 -0400
  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> - 2024-08-18 19:54 +0000
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-19 02:02 +0000
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers John McCue <jmccue@reddwf.jmcunx.com> - 2024-08-19 14:45 +0000
  Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-08-19 09:39 +0100
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-08-19 20:09 +0100
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-19 20:56 +0000
      Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-19 21:43 -0400
    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-08-19 21:36 -0400

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