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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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...........................CONGRATULATIONS Barramundi ON REACHING 800,000 MOT POINTS !!!........................... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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082 sorters, and the great new 029 card punches I remember those keypunch machines. We got upgraded to the 129's at one point but kept an old 026 because it could punch something (I do not remember what) that the 129's could not. The 129's were at the tail end of the keypunch era. About a year later we got a contraption which keyed directly to a 9 track tape which was a lot quieter. Cheers Technology may be obsolete hours after it's invented these days but it takes forever for it to die. Back in '74, I worked for a short time at a place still using an old IBM 1401 (a glorified card sorter) and briefly knew how to "program" a card punch.  They even had a couple of "old guys" around that "programmed" the wired boards. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It's getting quite close, and interesting, as newtod and pramodp both close in on their first MOT million. We have us a "horse race" it seems. Even better, they'll both end up winning!
---------------------------------------- jpenning will follow in short order and, with Barramundi cranking it out lately, they'll be next in line. Going to be a bit of a nice feast here soon! |
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parmesian
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 203 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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082 sorters, and the great new 029 card punches I remember those keypunch machines. We got upgraded to the 129's at one point but kept an old 026 because it could punch something (I do not remember what) that the 129's could not. The 129's were at the tail end of the keypunch era. About a year later we got a contraption which keyed directly to a 9 track tape which was a lot quieter. Cheers Technology may be obsolete hours after it's invented these days but it takes forever for it to die. Back in '74, I worked for a short time at a place still using an old IBM 1401 (a glorified card sorter) and briefly knew how to "program" a card punch. They even had a couple of "old guys" around that "programmed" the wired boards.You think that's bad, we still had a base level computer that was started by flipping a series of switches and then hitting the enter switch. After we did seventeen of these series, we were able to load the deck of 512 cards to load the operating system. Then we could input stuff with everyone's card decks and output the info to more cards. this was in 1984! we finally replaced that base level computer system (which ran personnel, payroll, supply, everything) in 1985 and kissed the cards goodbye. the irony is that i joined the air force to work with the latest technology and ended up working with something just a little younger than ENIAC. In Memory of Dave Bell |
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Somervillejudson@netscape.net
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Post Count: 1065 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I remember when I used an abacus! Just kidding but started and finished a degree in chemical engineering 79-84! I remember using card then we had towards end a programable computer at computer center. I spent several hours programing in a class project which then went blank! I went back to cards and swore off computer till bought my first desk top in 1993. Kina been hooked since. Still incredibly frustrating to me, but it must be the machonistic engineer in me that keeps me coming back. Thought we would have a record for points today but seems we all have individual great days out of sync but see us hitting them soon. Run time record has stood way to long. Everyone is really contributing which is great! New members are always nice but is really great that we have the members we do have. Good night!
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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 Good Morning Team You guys were right the last and best was the 129. It could punch and run as a "verifier". Before that was the 026 and a separate machine .... pehaps an 027 that was a purpose built verifier. My wife used those to support us while I went to the Universtity. I think I could still set up a card for the drum for those machines (ensuring numeric, alpha, both or blank). I might still be able to wire those reproducer boards as well and set up the brushes for the sorter. I took a class that taught all that. "Punched Card Data Processing". I bet I still have the text around here somewhere. And for those that remember: //sysin DD * datacards /* Everyone have a great day. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by RT at May 5, 2011 4:10:08 PM] |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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HOLY CRUNCHING BATMAN! TODAY IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 05/05 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== newtod reached 1,000,000 points  Runtime milestones report ========================= RT reached 102 years of runtime GeraldRube reached 79 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== smcclarigan reached 8,500 results jpenning reached 1,500 results New members report ================== No new members found.  Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 05/05/2011 3,839 Points: 05/05/2011 1,051,659 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 05/05 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 249,476 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 206,489 points 03: GeraldRube - 95,029 points 04: Coingames - 68,443 points 05: David Autumns - 43,355 points 06: finman - 39,602 points 07: brown chris - 27,782 points 08: Fanie - 27,216 points 09: parmesian - 26,857 points 10: dkt - 26,359 points 11: xroule - 26,308 points 12: NiceMedTexMD - 23,865 points 13: Vuj - 23,026 points 14: jpenning - 21,908 points 15: keithhenry - 19,682 points 16: Blueprint - 17,488 points 17: Rene Punt - 12,903 points 18: darth_vader - 12,325 points 19: Alain Bryden - 11,178 points 20: lawrencehardin - 8,562 points Total points returned today: 1,051,659 Active members returning points today: 42 Average points per member active today: 25,039.5 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.............................CONGRATULATIONS newtod ON REACHING 1,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!............................. |
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