[Simh] Various

[Jonathan Welch]

Our VAX 11/780 had a card reader in the very early 1980s for reading in the
names and details of incoming freshmen so their accounts could be set up.

It usually required a few runs to obtain an uncorrupted read of the card
deck.

The IBM system that generated the cards was on the other side of a wall but
no attempt to have the two systems communicate with each other was ever
made.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:40 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:50 AM Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> Among others, DEC OEM'd Documation card readers.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0F1bLfFKY
>>
> Mark - sorry to go a little direct (simh) topic here [this sort of belongs
> on Warren's COFF mailing list), but since the Card discussion started here
> as I'm kinda curious and will ask it.
>
> Did DEC actually sell that many?   In my years of working around DEC gear
> starting in the late 1960s, I think I saw a card read/punch only once on a
> PDP-6 IIRC, but it might have been a KA10.   I don't think I ever saw one
> on a PDP-8/11 or Vaxen.
>
> I certainly saw and used them on IBM 1401/360 systems, the Univac 1100s
> and CDC's.  I have not so fond memories of the IBM 1442, much less a 26 and
> 29 keypunch (and a couple of great stories too).
>
> That said, when I think of DEC gear, my memories are of paper tape or
> either the original DEC-Tape units or a couple of cases the old
> cassette tape units DEC had on some of the laboratory PDP 11/05s.
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