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Re: [PLUG] Computer History Question
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I would suspect that (2) doesn't refer to COBOL. It probably is an old
standard for data interchange possibly EBCDIC encoded. Your other guesses
seem reasonable.
HTH,
Tom
On Monday 31 March 2003 13:25, Edmund Goppelt wrote:
> Does anyone know what the following refer to?
>
> 1. "Electronic Tape"
> 2. "Common Lanuage Tape, Channels_____"
> 3. "Tabulating Cards"
> 4. "Wire Tranmission Bell Telephone"
>
> I recently asked the City of Philadelphia for deed records on CD. The
> above list are the storage media the City says it can provide the
> records on.
>
> I'm guessing from other forms that (1) refers to nine track tape. I'm
> not sure what (2) is. Does anyone here know? Could "Common Language"
> refer to Cobol? (3) I assume means punch cards. Does (4) mean
> downloading via modem or something else?
>
> Can anyone shed some light here?
>
> Thanks.
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