[roadcat]

Computers were more mechanical than electronic back then. In the payroll department, a computer upgrade consisted of changing the size of a wheel on a fanbelt.

Oh, you do go way back! Although I did use punch tapes and cards. I still have some paper punch tape rolls from programs I wrote in the early 70s, for PDP-11's. My Windows PCs will be part of my home computer museum. Things change so quickly now.

[HAL9000]

Some of that vintage hardware is starting to become valuable. As a collector’s item, my thirty-old Apple II is now valued near the original purchase price. (Of course, the value of the dollar ain’t what it used to be.)