[OPLINTECH] Such a deal ! Disquettes 90mm

[Mann, James H.]

Not quite, but years ago when I was still with Antioch University we had an 8 inch piece of punch tape that we kept locked up in the safe and a tape reader we used once a year to update the payroll system on an NCR main frame.
Here's some punch card trivia for us old guys...why did you use a marker or crayon to scribe an X on the top of your punch cards?
My oldest working system is a 1984 Macintosh with the case signed by the developers. Two of the developers were Antioch alumni who wrote the notepad and clock if I recall correctly. Since it was a pretty short run the "signed" cases had some value in the late '80s and were used as magazine holders and/or fish tanks.
OK, here's some old Mac trivia...when upgrading a Mac Plus why did you have to cut the green wire?

Jim Mann
Technology Coordinator
Greene County Public Library
76 E. Market St.
Xenia Ohio 45385
(937)352-4000 x1210
mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti.


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Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Such a deal ! Disquettes 90mm

Wow, the thing that scares me the most is that I know what all these
things are and have used some of them! Anybody have some punch cards
laying around? ;)

Thanks,
Colleen Sandusky
Network Administrator
Loudonville Public Library
122 E. Main St.
Loudonville, OH 44842

> I still have a Dial-a-story 8-Track player that used to play a story for
> kids who called in a
> special number and I have a Cell phone that is in a case and has a
> shoulder strap that used
> to be on the Bookmobile. Somewhere I still have a Comodore 64 too. YIKES,
> Why do I still
> have this stuff?
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