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From: ctp@pop.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <7163@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 11:13:46 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.7163
Posted: Fri Feb 13 11:13:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Feb-87 19:37:52 EST
References: <2319@sunybcs.UUCP> <1596@kitty.UUCP>
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Reply-To: ctp@pop.UUCP (Clyde T. Poole)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: early computers, trivia, humor
Summary: How about the IBM 1620?

In article <1596@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>...  Anyone remember the little card saws
>for use in severe card jams?
>
><>  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York
><>  UUCP:  {allegra|boulder|decvax|nike|rocksanne|watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry
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><>  FAX:   716/741-9635 {G1,G2,G3 modes}    "Have you hugged your cat today?" 

REMEMBER! I still have one! Along with a core plane from the IBM 1620 that
I took my first Computer Science course on.  Our big charge was to write
programs that would cause all the lights on the console to come on.

I really miss all those lights.  Back then it was easy to tell when you were
is a non-terminating loop.  The light pattern just kept repeating.
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