>Thank you (I'll take that as a GREAT compliment!). Actually, the 360 was in use til around 1980 (much later with some companies that just continued on with it as long as possible) or so as far as I know, but we used it a few years before that. In the 70's we used the IBM 360/50 which they eventually replaced with the 360/145. They thought they were 'leading edge' at that time and I still remember my boss telling me (in 1976) that within 10 years there would no longer be any personal checks-we would only carry a bankcard in the future which would draw money out of our account and transfer it to the merchant's account for us. I laughed at that then! I believe we used Hollerith Punch Cards (I remember there was a pink card in the front of the deck). It's been so long ago now, that my memory fails me I'm afraid and it was one of my high school jobs (which I despised at the time). I'm surprised that I ever went into programming after that job!

Yup, they were those cards alright.
mmm.... In 1983 I was installing Baby 36's, and I was only 42. Something happend since then....


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>>>Still to this day, I could cry for him! What a painful experience! I know everyone was thinking "Thank goodness that wasn't me!" :o) Whenever it happened we were so FURIOUS (you know why!) but also very saddened and empathetic towards the person that dropped the tray! No one wanted to be in his/her shoes (it was usually a man because there were very few women in this field back then! tee, hee!)
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>>>>I only saw one person drop a tray of cards and that was in college. Class was over at 10 PM and we were waiting in line to use the computer to run our jobs. At about 11PM a guy in front of me dropped his tray and left for the evening. Not a fun sight!
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>>>>>I used to work for a company called Computer Congenerics Corporation of Colorado. We balanced the banks accounts. That is just how we fed our programs! I cannot tell you the number of people that got fired from dropping the trays! They were gone that day!
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>>>>>>Just give me my old IBM 360, Fortran and a bunch of punched cards. I will show these kids what a real computer can do! Watch me crunch numbers! Darn it – I just dropped the card tray! :)
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