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The Early Seventies

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IBM 3420 tape drives replace 240/s. Support for 1600 bpi.(1971) Standup card punch in the SSRB user room helped curb long lines.(1973) Networking begins when CNS (then called "NERDC") connects to users in Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Orlando.(1973) NERDC builds a tape vault to handle large number of user tapes.(1973) Would you trust your CICS applications to this man? Yes. Barry Brooks as a new NERDC operator.(1974)
The KYBE cleaned our reel tapes--when it was working!(1972)