[Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975

[Phil Kane]

On 4/26/2021 11:18 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:

>> Or PDP-8 on paper tape after toggling in the boot loader through the 
>> front panel switches?

> Sorry, mine was a Varian 620/i (8K of 16 bit words) used for nodes in a 
> circuit switched data network (Tymnet). :-)

Memories of a USAF Message Center (mid-1960s) with a 100-line data 
switch that took up a whole floor of the building.  Today such a switch 
would be the size of a big refrigerator.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

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Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon