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

From	Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com>
Newsgroups	talk.politics.misc, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics.usa
Subject	Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers
Date	2024-08-21 19:25 +0800
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vallor wrote:
>>
>>     Heh ... I remember visiting a county facility when I was still pretty
>>     young. The computer room was freezing and the floor was laser-leveled
>>     for the benefit of the old-style disk drive units (and I mean
>>     "units", you could physically remove a big spool of about 12" wide
>>     disks - DO wait until they stop spinning !). There were also the
>>     boxes with the spinning tapes and the obligatory card and paper-tape
>>     readers.
>>
>>     The "cpu chip" was about a cubic METER in size in the middle of the
>>     room - DEC I think, PDP-4 or maybe PDP-7 - full of a bunch of circuit
>>     boards with zillions of individual transistors and perhaps a few
>>     early "chips". Workers/programmers had serial terminals at their
>>     desks.

Yeah, I remember the university had that stuff in the 1970s, and also a 
"concentrator" that multiplexed 300-baud terminals into an ISDN line.

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  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
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                Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 07:35 +0000
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            Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 07:34 +0000
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