Another "rocking chair" story... I grew up (60's) with a few of these clacking away in my father's HAM shack. He was a member of the Military Affiliate Radio

Another "rocking chair" story... I grew up (60's) with a few of these clacking away in my father's HAM shack. He was a member of the Military Affiliate Radio (MARS) program, and used to get things like TTYs for free. He was really open about letting me mess with things (as long as I didn't take things apart or transmit), so I spent a lot of time playing around with them, feeding punch tapes into them to print things, etc. I knew at the time that punch tapes were a/the recording method for computer programs on mainframes, so I had a lot of "this is a computer" fantasies rolling around in my brain.