Hey,
there is at least one geek here...I started in 1968 on an IBM 7094/1401 and
then the 360/65 on up!
Doug
At 06:20 PM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
>Never considered that some of the stalwarts of this list would be "old
>geeks". While I never wrote code(execpt college 101 intro to computer on a
>360) I did have an early exp mid 70's in sales of "computers". Was in N.
>Texas with a lg. territory for Monroe Calc.Co. They seem to have fallen
>into oblivion. At the time they were the big dog in the calculator mkt. *
>whoops, for grins I just googled and they still exist but w/o the sub. of
>this note. At the time they tried entering the coming computer boom with a
>micro-processor/computer. Strange but true, it was fairly amazing in its
>capabilities. 4k expandable to 16k. Could program on the keyboard of the
>i/o an IBM Selectric, surprisingly fast printing bi-dir. Programing code
>was "machine interpretive". The other i/o was a card reader. They had a
>big library of programs, applying to just about anything anyone could use.
>The cards were the size and shape of credit cds but film the same as
>floppy disks. The big surprise to me as I worked my terr. was in finding
>the units where I didn't expect like hosp. and university labs but w/o the
>co. name on them. Found out other co.s were buying them as oem to bundle
>w/ their equip. Didn't make any money, a recession was settling in and as
>usual back them the south suffered first but it was a hack of an edu exp.
>Ed
>58 3a
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