Comments on: 1124 My First Portable Computer http://www.peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/ Your world: politics, technology, information and the human perspective. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:48:25 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: peaceengine.com Blog » Blog Archive » 112A Son, IBM History, and Digg http://www.peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-77 peaceengine.com Blog » Blog Archive » 112A Son, IBM History, and Digg Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:33:04 +0000 http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/#comment-77 [...] http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/ [...] [...] http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/ [...]

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]]> By: rewinn http://www.peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-47 rewinn Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:33:57 +0000 http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/#comment-47 We had an IBM 1620, or something like it, at MSU in the early 1970s. You'll recall that the switches had to be set on the front so it'd be smart enough to read the card deck with the OS on it, but the switch settings were complicated. Some clever person (not me) cut notches in a piece of plexiglass so you just held it up to the switches and flipped down those with a notch. What a great programming aid! Ah memory! We had an IBM 1620, or something like it, at MSU in the early 1970s. You’ll recall that the switches had to be set on the front so it’d be smart enough to read the card deck with the OS on it, but the switch settings were complicated.

Some clever person (not me) cut notches in a piece of plexiglass so you just held it up to the switches and flipped down those with a notch. What a great programming aid!

Ah memory!

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