[sammyo]

So much better than paper tape! My first adventure was on a PDP-8 that had a paper tape reader that was great but really slow even for that time. So a job with a real card reader that ran through a deck in seconds was cool.

(And I almost got to take a 360/30 front console until some company bought it for scrap. So many flashing lights and dials, I figured I could drive them with a Z80)

[earleybird]

Our PDP-8/E in jr high school 4k core, with a later upgrade to a winchester disk (32Kb total storage) and a high speed tape reader. Still had to punch the tapes out on the KSR-33 but reading them was quite fast (relatively). If you were lucky, you'd get permission to use a bit of space on the winchester. Now that was a feeling of privilege.