From: theise@panix.com   
      
   On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:31:31 -0000 (UTC),   
     John McCue  wrote:   
   >  Ted Heise  wrote:   
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   > > 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.   
      
   Maybe.  My recollection is they had a bank of 'em, and they were   
   not much bigger than the punch card in two dimensions--maybe 8-10   
   inches long, 2-3 inches wide, and 5 inches tall.  They opened like   
   a clamshell and you set the card down into it with the card's long   
   side down.  A buddy had gotten an HP calculator that same   
   semester, and it was roughly 5-6 inches square and a couple inches   
   tall.  Had big red digit display, and could do maybe six   
   functions.   
      
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   Ted Heise             West Lafayette, IN, USA   
      
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