[Simh] Of DEC and cards

[Clem Cole]

One last reply here, but CCing COFF where this thread really belongs...

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:34 PM Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:

> OTOH, and probably more consistent with your experience, card equipment was
>
> almost unheard of when the DEC HW ran Unix...
>
You're probably right about that Tim, but DEC world was mostly
TOPS/TENEX/ITS and UNIX.  But you would think that since a huge usage of
UNIX systems were as RJE for IBM gear at AT&T.  In fact, that was one of
the 'justifications' if PWB.  I'm thinking of the machine rooms I saw in
MH, WH and IH, much less DEC, Tektronix or my university time.  It's funny,
I do remember a lot of work to emulate card images and arguments between
the proper character set conversions, but  I just don't remember seeing actual
card readers or punches on the PDP-11s, only on the IBM, Univac and CDC
systems.

As other people have pointed out, I'm sure they must have been around, but
my world did not have them.
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