I too have a box of punchcards but they are punched; I am sooo glad that we
don't program that way anymore.  I remember with all too much horror
submitting my cards to the technician at the mainframe and having him drop
them along with the other 100 or so sets of cards that had been placed in
the card tray and those of us who were there watching having to sort out our
cards and place them in order again.  All of this in the middle of the night
because the program was due the next day and I had a bug that I just could
not track down in the first couple of dozen runs.

Elizabeth

Dr. Elizabeth Moore
Assistant Director of Science and Learning
Curator of Collections and Archaeology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
1001 Douglas Avenue
Martinsvile, VA  24112
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Gutenkauf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for old papers, photos, physical artifats relating to
the computer industry


> My basement is full of a ton of stuff including un-punched punchcards and
> old mainframe harddisks. (don't ask) I've probably got manuals and years
of
> back issues of computer magazines, too.
>
> Call me and we can talk about what you're looking for and what I would be
> happy to be rid of. Now, I'll have to get that mainframe keyboard off the
> curb before the junk man takes it. Literally!
>
> I may still have a TI home computer in it's box. If it hasn't been rained
> on by now. (Garage sale this past weekend)
>
> Diane Gutenkauf
> The Morton Arboretum
> 630-719-2461 (v)
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:35:56 -0700, ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >We are looking for old papers, photos, physical artifacts relating to the
> computer industry.
> >
> >books on computer technology, the history of computers, early operating
> instructions etc...
> >
> >Please let us know before you clean anything out that is not relevant to
> your collections, chances are it  would fit in ours!
> >
> >One neat  interest we have is in the  SAGE  an/fsq-7 computer.
> >
> >
> >
> >Anyone close to here  have an old IBM keypunch machine?
> >
> >
> >
> >please email us off list.
> >
> >Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
> >
> >Please check our web site at
> > http://www.smecc.org
> >to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
> >buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.
> >
> >address:
> >
> > coury house / smecc
> >5802 w palmaire ave
> >glendale az 85301
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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