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   John McCue to Ted Heise   
   Re: Joining Slackware Newsgroup   
   16 Feb 23 21:31:31   
   
   From: jmccue@fuzzball.mhome.org   
      
   Ted Heise  wrote:   
      
      
      
   > Interesting.  I have a vague memory of a college chemistry (or   
   > physics?) lab in 1974 that used a Wang device.  It had some kind   
   > of reader that took a single punch card.  Pretty simple stuff.   
      
   I suspect it was their calculator, I was in school at   
   the time but my Math teacher I brought one into to   
   school time.  He worked at Wang part-time in the   
   afternoon.  It was also rather large compared to what   
   came out in like 5 years.   
      
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