OT: Google 1960s style

Reminds me of a visit to a data center in the early 80's, lots of tape machines and loads of disk drives ( the drives the size of washing machines with removable multiple platters) THey had the high speed DEC dot matrix printers, fast stuff for the time. Pretty noisey too.

Cheers

Remember those daze well.. Sorted stacks of cards,making up to 5 passes.

On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:34:02 -0700, Robert Baer Gave us:

Did you operate the mock-up?

It actually works and punches your card for you and runs it.

Cool site! Thanks!

On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:34:02 -0700, Robert Baer Gave us:

Looking at that site, the machine plays tic tact toe and "Global Thernonuclear War", and refers to "the player" (you) as "Dr Falken".

Want to play a game?

Did you type in anything?

-- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.

Yes. It was a fun trip down memory lane.

I used Teletype and Kleinschmidt machines in the '70s, but on news wires. They were about that slow. :)

The keyboard below the card punch looks much more like some Teletype keyboard rather than a key punch keyboard, at least some important "function keys" missing.

Don't know what sort of keypunch it is but the "discard" key indicates that it is a keypunch rather than a teletype.

"Discard", sounds more like the Rubout or Delete key (0x7F ASCII key) i.e full punch (0xFF) on ordinary (even parity) Teletype.

It sounds like "throw the card away", to me. Ever play Gin?