Congratulations Roadcat, you must be old as dirt too.
I actually used to work for Lockheed electronics. I mixed and processed the chemicals those little donuts were made of. A very precise mix of chemicals by weight.
I am also the only guy on my block that still has a box of 8” floppies.
I wish I kept some. I worked for a place that was still using them in the early 1990s (government always late to upgrade). I had some friends who worked at Lockheed. Very secretive, couldn't let me know what they worked on. But they enjoyed working there. One was in satellite imaging, and I know he loved it. Anyway, I hope to live to see what comes of quantum computing. I know I won't understand it, can no longer keep up with new stuff.
I wonder who else here has dealt with a punched card floor sort, after dropping the box on the way to the reader....
I remember opening the cabinet of a B3500 and seeing the “1 MILLION DOLLAR” iron ferrite hand-wired core. A measly 1 Mb of ram...