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There were some relatively dumb CRT terminals available, but not enough. It still beat punch cards, which I sometimes had to deal with when I was just starting
by not2b 6y ago
There were some relatively dumb CRT terminals available, but not enough. It still beat punch cards, which I sometimes had to deal with when I was just starting.
- ansible 6y agoThere was still a punch card reader in the terminal room of Math/Sci, but I had never seen someone use it. When I visited ISU a couple years previously, they were still using paper tape for storage on one of their PDP-11s. So I just missed that era too, we were using 9-track for file backups.