Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Date: 30 Oct 2026 04:33:36 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <18dee4b6cab427fa$865$2574533$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11bg381$1bjd2$1@dont-email.me> <11bhv61$1bjd2$2@dont-email.me> <11bi77v$20c1p$1@news.xmission.com> <11binqk$1bjd2$3@dont-email.me> <11bmnvg$36mvk$1@dont-email.me> <11bp7nd$139t9$2@dont-email.me> <1omdnboFafC6TX33nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@giganews.com> <11brekh$139ta$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZhwSNtmItuEdOBgYVzDRXgspA2SqvqvUNUJleH61GhegpoDcQV Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bh83W29O7L7rXXnp14lL209TENo= sha256:htzZYzArG2FyNAxrxNAOWGofUHKuhECkjjkY6ZLKjp8= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:94792 comp.unix.shell:27049 On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:09:50 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I attended university from 1968 to 1971. In the fall of 1968 they > converted from an IBM 7044 to a 360/67. The 360 had a few 2260s, but I > wouldn't call them common and access was fairly restricted. The 360/67 was the start of something new for IBM -- timesharing. The 360/30 maxxed out at 64K and became a satellite processor for some of the later 360 machines. I wasn't too interested but a friend was and spoke of the future with awe. He eventually dropped out and moved to Boston where there was a lot more happening. My girlfriend started at SUNY Albany before transferring out of that zoo. I can't remember what they had, CDC maybe, but definitely not IBM and her programming course was in some language that I don't think survived either.