Re: Motorola's Punched-Card Reader

2016-03-24 Thread COURYHOUSE
Ed at SMECC FOUND: In the Motorola annual report from 1967 CONTROL SYSTEMS DIVISION The division completed the best year in its six-year history. Orders increased 40% over the previous year. Additionally, two significant objectives were reached. The first was a move to achieve internat

Re: Motorola's Punched-Card Reader

2016-03-24 Thread COURYHOUSE
does not look like the HP units we had. another case is the motorola teleprinter see the photo of it on the teleprinter slide rule _www.smecc.org/motolola_government.htm_ (http://www.smecc.org/motolola_government.htm) this unit also appears in the Motorola 1961 annual report. Keep me i

Motorola's Punched-Card Reader

2016-03-24 Thread Jason T
I don't know their history as regards computing before the 1980s but Motorola seems to have had a brief flirtation with data processing in the form of their MDR-1000 mark-sense and punched-card reader, a brochure for which I scanned tonight: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputin