[walshemj]

mm but the waiting in line wasn't fun - back in the 80's we had a dial up link to a mainframe to run CFD models,

I recall one day in our terminal room one of the engineers came in logged on - then commented with a sigh 48 jobs in the queue ahead of hers.

[mtdewcmu]

You were using punch cards in the 80s? I thought they'd given way to magnetic storage by then.

[walshemj]

Not at out end we used to get data back from some of our partners (Admiralty Research Establishment at Portland from memory) in paper tape form - I had a few paper cuts from our high-speed paper tape reader.