Don't be making fun of punch cards - we have some tucked away in the nation's attic.

We had the "terminal room" downstairs, filled with the old punch card machines and the

Old green terminals, which were used until about 1982.  We'd take the cards

Upstairs to the Honeywell and that's how we'd run the jobs.  In '83, I got the first IBM PC

In the Institution (with a 20Mb hard drive & DOS 1.1! LOL) and my office was the old terminal room.



Now our cell phones are 1000 times smaller and have 1000 times more computing power

and memory than the old mainframes had.



Yeah, yeah.





Mignon Erixon-Merritt

Systems Software Specialist

Smithsonian Institution, OCIO

380 Herndon Parkway, MRC 1010

Herndon, VA  20170

Tel:  202-633-6373

Email:  [log in to unmask]

Web:  http://www.si.edu/





-----Original Message-----



On 1/14/2015 18:56, Greg Dietrich wrote:



> Actually, I usually create a JOB card and do all of the bad email addresses at once by copying them between delimiter cards



What's a "card????" ;-)



Another subscriber show's his gray hair.



https://www.google.com/search?q=%22punch%20cards%22#q=%22punched+cards%22



Pete,

the greasy spot where the mainframe dinosaur used to lie



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