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Those devices were all modern apparatus. I used a Freiden Rotary Calculator with a ball stricker like an old IBM typewriter for 4 years to adjust the gas mixture daily for an entire town. We then bought a Hewlett Packard 4 function computer with a plotter for $65,000. A $2.00 pocket calculator today has more power, makes you wonder what the next 10 years will bring?

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Bodryn

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.

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