“Neat....”
Neat not. When I started at IBM in ‘67 stock was at $710.00 a share! Too rich for a comp operator.
I started out programming on an NCR 315 when it was in competiton with the just released IBM 360s in the mid 60’s. We had punch card and paper tape readers, mag tape drives, mechanical line printers and a whopping 10-20K of RAM. Filled up a good size room which had to be temp and humidity controlled with a raised floor for all the cabling.
Ah, they had not split the stock yet.... hmm... interesting.