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97. When me and my sisters were kids

he would take us to the office every once in a while to show us around. The room with the mainframe was huge, had a raised floor, and was air-conditioned, and I was fascinated by the mag tape drives with the tapes jerking forward and back. He and his buddies would "entertain" us by loading a stack of punch cards in a punch card reader, where the cards had been punched (programmed) in a specific sequence so that when run through the reader, could create a "song". I literally just found this video and I had been thinking it was the reader doing the "sounds" but I bet it was actually activating an old IBM line printer like this -

I think I remember "Jingle Bells" being one of the "songs".

He used to bring home a couple plastic rings used on the tapes like this -



that we would throw around the house like frisbees.