My Stuff

I still want a DecWriter III for my garage. When I was a young mump, the sight of a LA120 giving output and a user then feeding data back on the same "printer" thrilled me no end.

Yup, I remember working on one of those. And yes, I too have some tapes laying around.

I used one of those in college to punch tape for a CNC milling machine. We had an Index mill with a Slo-Syn CNC box on it. Looked something like this:

http://www.wimb.net/index.php?s=slosyn&page=56

Damned museum piece now.

I found out from Brian, my friend since the 5th grade, that the computer we used was a Data General NOVA 1200.

This is what we were using when I was in grade 10.

http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/ibm_129a.JPG

Twice a week a pair of students would get assigned to take a taxi up to the university to run the whole class's stack of cards through their bulk card terminal and then return with the printouts.

That web site is a MARCH member: the NJ computer museum! I used TTYs at high school and college, still have a cigar box of BASIC programs on paper tape.