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

From	Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers
Date	2024-08-18 08:27 -0700
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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!
  -Don-

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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
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    Re: Still Going - IRS Still Using JFK-Era Computers rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-08-19 20:56 +0000
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