Hey Ray, just saw your thread, Welcome !!
Nice interesting story on computers. Back in the 80's I was at Livermore Lab, we still used punch cards and mag tape reels back then. Even the big 7600's had all kinds of crazy stuff connected to them.
That was the Nuke days and just before SDI, they had started to convert the nuclear weapons & test divisons I worked over to CAD CAM, instead of on teh drawing boards that I used to work on.
I have moved to Military Applications at that time when MX Missile and just after the Neutron bombs. SDI brought a whole lot of other crazy devices to the table.
But yes even for Nuke research we still lhad punch cards and mag tape reels back then.
Love your photo collection of WWII Air Birds
I have a few interesting pic's from back then I need to scan.