Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:32:49 EST, "Clarence1898" <cla### [at] comcastnet>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >IBM also made a 96 column card with round holes for their system/3 back in the
> >70's
> >
> >I wrote a driver for the IBM 1017 paper tape reader on an ibm/370 system, also
> >in the 70's.  The reader was already obsolete, so IBM didn't support it on our
> >system.  It was kind of fun to write the code, but overall it turned out to be
> >a PITA.
>
> When I worked for Burroughs in the mid 70's they too made 96 column card
> readers/printers but they had rectangular holes. IIRC the 80 column cards were
> rectangular too.
>
> I remember taking a high speed tape reader to bits once. I would like to say
> that I managed to put it back together but I can't. Do you remember the golf
> ball printer heads?
>
> --
>
> Regards
>      Stephen

Afraid so.  The IBM 360's used the 1052 typewriter for a system console.  The
ce's loved them.  When an internal drive belt broke, they had to disassemble
half the typewriter to install a new belt.  So they always looped a couple of
extra belts around the main drive shaft for future use.  Unless you had an
alternate console, the whole system was down while they worked on it.

Isaac.

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