[GreenKeys] OT: Vintage IBM 029 keypunch

[Jones, Douglas W]

From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove [captainkirk359 at gmail.com] Saturday, September 12, 2015 8:28 PM

>  Yes, and no. The LINC-8 is a "straight-8"... with some some extra
> electronics to make it also pretend to be a LINC.

While the LINC-8 was a very successful lab machine, the straight-8
was also successful in lab settings -- you could get (and I have)
a multi-channel ADC for it, as well as a 2.5 channel DAC (usually
used for scope output, the 0.5 channel was beam intensity).  The
straight-8 I am working on was originally used in a neuropsychology
lab to study things like cat brains while the cats looked at blinking
lights.

                    Doug Jones
                    jones at cs.uiowa.edu