[Simh] Various

[Davis Johnson]

I used them to feed a KL 1090 running TOPS-10. 6.something to 7.something.

On 2/13/20 11:38 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:50 AM Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org 
> <mailto: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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