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Gene E. Bloch
Flightless Bird
On 1/28/10, relic posted:
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:u9c3m59925nj5rr1v2f8u7p4ve8t3gjoao@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 2189 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/27/10, Ken Blake, MVP posted:
>>> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:228 -0800, "Dabbler" <dabbler@nospam.invalid>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
>>> >> newsto1m5d8dm1pb3l842cvdofb9l2vrmloub@4ax.com...
>>> >>
>>> >>> BCD goes back to way before the 70s. My first use of it was in 1962,
>>> >>> when I started programming the IBM 1401.
>>> >>
>>> >> Whoa, you must be even older than I!
>>>
>>>
>>> > I'm 72.
>>>
>>>
>>> >> Wasn't that IBM 1401 used
>>> >> primarily by banks to run reader-sorters?
>>>
>>>
>>> > No. It was a very low-end, but general purpose, computer. It ranged
>>> > from 1.4 to 16KB or RAM. In its day it was far and away the computer
>>> > that sold the most.
>>>
>>> When I first started in computers, Fall '61,
>>
>>
>> That's almost exactly one year before me.
> Kids! 1959.
You have earned your netname, then
--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:u9c3m59925nj5rr1v2f8u7p4ve8t3gjoao@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 2189 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/27/10, Ken Blake, MVP posted:
>>> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:228 -0800, "Dabbler" <dabbler@nospam.invalid>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
>>> >> newsto1m5d8dm1pb3l842cvdofb9l2vrmloub@4ax.com...
>>> >>
>>> >>> BCD goes back to way before the 70s. My first use of it was in 1962,
>>> >>> when I started programming the IBM 1401.
>>> >>
>>> >> Whoa, you must be even older than I!
>>>
>>>
>>> > I'm 72.
>>>
>>>
>>> >> Wasn't that IBM 1401 used
>>> >> primarily by banks to run reader-sorters?
>>>
>>>
>>> > No. It was a very low-end, but general purpose, computer. It ranged
>>> > from 1.4 to 16KB or RAM. In its day it was far and away the computer
>>> > that sold the most.
>>>
>>> When I first started in computers, Fall '61,
>>
>>
>> That's almost exactly one year before me.
> Kids! 1959.
You have earned your netname, then
--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com