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Re: [PLUG] Computer History Question
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"Common language tapes" may simply be voice tapes reading the information.
Or even worse, genuine baudaut coded tapes like the old ticker tapes used
to use. Notice that the item said "Bell" transmission lines.
It has been several years that my bills have been from Verizon.
Sounds like city hall has not wasted any time at updating their files.
One wonders if the storage media used can even be translated to more
modern and accessible form. We had a problem in the government with seven
track tapes and an inability to find a supplier of seven track reel to
reel machines.
bs
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Tom wrote:
> 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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