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Old 15th Feb 2020, 23:24
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Originally Posted by Gauges and Dials
Also contemplate that they accomplished a lot of that magic with not much more than slide rules, pencils, and graph paper!
they did have IBM punch cards and Freiden calculators that you could program a task to play pseudo music until the machine crashed. Also the early wet copiers to cut down on carbon copies and of course lots of test points from running engines. We also had "wang" calculators that I could program with punch cards to solve open 3 variables.I saw every part of this
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