On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Les wrote:
We also had mechanical tape readers, the small hole in the center
of
the tape was the drive. Small fingers would sense the holes punched in
the tape. 5 level, caps+numbers+a limited number of punctuation marks.
I also helped clean and adjust the teleltypes. Do any of you know what
the "stunt box" is?
The box of holes?
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"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only
curse at are called Software."