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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI in BASIC?
Message-ID: <1081@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 16:18:27 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: .recreational
Summary: IBM Welding set


I used to have an IBM 1401 computer sytem that a bank gave me, but
it was too wide to fit into my house which only had 35 inch wide
door frames (the smallest IBM cabinet was 36 inches wide).  I wound
up keeping it in my garage until some friends and I dismantled it
for scrap.  I also could not afford the 30 amps 208 volt three
phase power to run it.  All in all, it would have had the computing
power of an Apple II, and about 1/2 as much memory.  (It had the
extended core cabinet, yeilding a whopping 32K.)

We finally did get the 1402 read/punch to work and amused ourselves
by sending 800 cards/minute thruough the reader.  Talk about a
mess! Cards would fly everywhere when something went amiss.

It was also fun to vaporize paperclips with the 60 volt printer
magnet power supply.

--Bill