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Hydraulics
One of the machines that I worked on a lot was the 1403N1 which was in its day the highest speed line printer around. This could print 1100 lines per minute 132 characters wide. I ended up as one of t… more →
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Hydraulics
ibmbagules wrote 6 hours ago: One of the machines that I worked on a lot was the 1403N1 which was in its day the highest speed lin … more →
Zapping
ibmbagules wrote 1 day ago: One of the problems we came across a lot was static electricity, mentioned in earlier post when the … more →
Muppets!
ibmbagules wrote 1 day ago: Have just viewed the Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody which reminded me of shift working in the 70s. … more →
First Impressions
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ibmbagules wrote 2 days ago: Not long after completing basic 360 training I was sent on the model 40 course and assigned to a ter … more →
More P and V scams
ibmbagules wrote 2 days ago: In one of my earlier blogs I mentioned that there were some dodgy customers who abused people and co … more →
All Change
ibmbagules wrote 3 days ago: After I had been working on P and V for about 18 months the company decided to reorganise, driven ma … more →
Opportunities
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ibmbagules wrote 4 days ago: In my first post I mentioned my first manager telling me that if the machine had IBM on the cover th … more →
Punch Room Life
ibmbagules wrote 5 days ago: The first period in my life as a Customer Engineer was spent dashing between punch rooms mainly in t … more →
More Punched Cards
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ibmbagules wrote 6 days ago: Punched 80 column cards were one of the keystones of the business in those early days. All the data … more →
Data Entry
ibmbagules wrote 1 week ago: For those who do not know what a punch card is and what the data entry process was in the early days … more →
Technology
ibmbagules wrote 1 week ago: Further to my earlier post the one thing I remember as being a real challenge in those early days wa … more →
50 Years ago
ibmbagules wrote 1 week ago: I got a reminder of my past life today when notified that the IBM 1401 system was 50 years old. I di … more →
More Anniversaries of '69: Unix
swertheim wrote 3 weeks ago: In an earlier post I commented on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Since it’s … more →
Riffing on an Algorithm
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thonyc wrote 2 months ago: The estimable Thom Levenson author of the excellent Newton and the Counterfeiter, has a piece at The … more →
Poetical Turing
thonyc wrote 2 months ago: SCOOPING THE LOOP SNOOPER A proof that the Halting Problem is undecidable Geoffrey K. Pullum (School … more →
Too little too late but it's better than nothing
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thonyc wrote 2 months ago: The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has publically apologized for the treatment handed out to co … more →
Women and the history of computing in West Yorkshire
80gb wrote 2 months ago: Last week I goaded a couple of male colleagues into posting a (deliberately provocative) thread on t … more →
Google Maps, Street View And Its Precursor
swertheim wrote 3 months ago: I confess a fascination with all things related to Google Maps. I’ve always loved maps, but G … more →
The legacy of legacy software
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K wrote 5 months ago: Introduction On a recent ramble through Google Scholar, I stumbled on a fascinating paper by Michael … more →
