On 2/26/26 08:39, Joseph Giliberti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I work at a Chevy dealership parts department and I discovered today that GM still refers to various databases as "tapes." For example, the February pricing tape is the parts pricing file for this month.
Just figured someone else might find that interesting.
That's neat! Along the same lines, SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), by far the EE world's most common circuit simulator, got its start more than fifty years ago on IBM mainframes, where punched cards were the normal input mechanism, with one typed line per card. To this day, in even the most modern implementations of SPICE, a SPICE input file is referred to as a "deck" or a "SPICE deck". Everything comes from somewhere! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA