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IBM's last tabulator last unitrecord punch card machine See Msg bodyThe DDP 24 FloatingPoint Format, and Others Finally, I found out what the floating-point format of the DDP-24 was; it was in the last... I was in the last clbutt in the USAF to be trained on the 407. Our final included an interface with a 513 Summary Punch. IBM was still making the 029 & 059 punches and verifiers into the 70's. When I first got to Scott AFB in Illinois, our new Honeywell 6080s needed to be fed LOTS and LOTS of cards. Prior to my retirement, Sperry had the keypunch of choice, as it had more memory than IBMs punch. I had my hands on the LAST manual card punch IBM made. That was in 1985. It disappeared before I could get it released to me to donate to the computer museum. There was an insurance company in Omaha that had a VERY old reproducer they kept in operation, along side a tabulating machine. Don't remember either model number, but word was that IBM provided all maintenance and support at no charge, just to show that they still were ticking after all those years. The reprodsucer looked like an old cast iron stove, with animal paw feet. the tabulator was a tube device, and blew off a LOT of heat. I only found out what they were because I took my coffee breaks the the Customer Engineers. A practical use for old system emulators I responded to a request for help on data formats used on ICL 1900 systems by the Population Studies Centre, University of Pennsylvania for The...
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