----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Guzis via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "Mike Stein via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:56 PM Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a computer Earl...
> On 09/12/2017 09:34 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: >> Does my creating a procedures manual from punched cards printed on an IBM >> 402 back in 1962 count as word/text processing? > > > Isn't that known as an "80-80 listing run on an accounting machine?" :) > > Never got to use a 402 or 405--just 407s. > > > --Chuck Pshaw! Semantics; function and context are everything. We finally went from the 402/604 to a Burroughs B260, the first in Canada.
