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I think punched tapes for teletype was before cards, but not sure.
(Sure, loom cards predate them all.)
I used punch tapes like that in HS with a teletype machine, around 1968, but those had been around a long time by then.
The weird thing is, I have no idea (some suspicions) what computer system that teletype connected to....
By '72, in college, it was all punch cards...with the same 'Later That Day' response time:)


I had to work on some NCR mainframes that still used CRAM in the early 80s. They also used punch cards and paper tape. Those mainframe computers had 64k of RAM. They also had the big reel to reel tape machines and washing machine sized disk drives that used multi platter removable hard drives that could hold 5MB.

I don't miss those days. Some of the programs we wrote for them in NCR's NEAT/3 (NCR's assembly language) used several thousand punched cards.

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Reminds me of some of the tales about certain huts at Bletchley Park...
"One thing I remember was that during night shifts the Enigma machine was the only warm thing about, so we used to wash our smalls and hang them around it to dry," she told the Telegraph.

"It used to be festooned with bras and pants all through our night duty. Back then it must have looked a real sight."
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wwii-enig...dies-bras-alan-turings-bombe-machines-1474618
I heard another about the huts getting very hot in summer, and operators stripping to their underwear. I can't find the source for that one at the moment.
 
Reminds me of some of the tales about certain huts at Bletchley Park...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wwii-enig...dies-bras-alan-turings-bombe-machines-1474618
I heard another about the huts getting very hot in summer, and operators stripping to their underwear. I can't find the source for that one at the moment.

I used to live just a mile or so from Bletchley Park. There's now a museum and things to see, but sadly, while I was nearby it was pretty much in ruin and was all fenced off.

 
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