The Mizzou mechanical engineering department had one of these babies in 1969. Never could figure it out. We also had an IBM 360 which took instructions via punch cards. The changes we’ve seen in less than 50 years!
Here I sit with the morning news and no ink on my fingers! Why just 25 years ago we were reading articles like “Will the Internet become the ‘Information Superhighway’?” which were forecasting that one day we could read the newspaper on our huge desktop computer CRT monitors.
#24 Yes. The family business used this in the office. I myself did not but I remember punch cards and manila cards stamped by metal plates to create records for the office files.