Get Real! wrote:CBBB wrote:I like all this talk about modern computing. When I was a lad using an Elliot 803B with 8K of memory, no disks, and the input and output was on paper tape, we had it tough!
These young people today...........!
Problem with your story is that when computers were using punched tape for output, they were not affordable to the average home user and very few companies could afford or needed to have one…
Well it was a second hand one that used to belong Shell, it filled a very large room and the college had a full time operator for it.