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Originally Posted by verdesardog
How about paper tape? That's what was used on the Tarawa class LHA's state of the art telephone system! And discrete components to make up the cpu and memory! Programing was done in machine language. Who says the military has the best technology???
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That reminds me - if we wanted to save our own copy of a program written on the old teletypes, we could run a paper tape listing - you'd get a roll of yellow paper tape with a bunch of holes in it, and save that and if your program went missing on the mainframe, you could just run that tape through and in a few minutes, have your program back online. I think I still have some of those old tapes!
Makes me laugh just thinking we had to put up with that! But at the time, it was amazing technology to me.