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It makes lots of sense - as we moved from batch systems to working from terminals (mid to late 70s) some people were editing cards on card punches, while others

• gok 7y ago
  So DEC thought of this as a way to edit IBM cards but IBM didn't? The implicit claim is that somehow the machines for manufacturing punch cards were reused for computer output and that is what terminals were trying to emulate. But surely there were more displays and non-card-sized printers?
  • Taniwha 7y ago
    Actually I was using Burroughs systems (in pre-VT52 days) There certainly were non card size printers - but they scaled linearly with technology But no we didn't repurpose card punches to be terminals, but we did need terminals to edit card images (fortran was 72 characters plus 8 digits of sequence numbers)
• partdavid 7y ago
  Having used such a system: yes.