Cyhist Aug 4, 1999 B

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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "George Edw. Seymour" <seymour@NOSC.MIL>
Subject: Digital information search origins
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"All" Web users know about search engines, but I am more curious about early information (not software--i.e., looking for broken code) searches, before and after DIALOG. Does anyone know when mainframe memories or storage devices got large enough to start searching for information?
For background, I recall (late 60s & early 70s) submitting large boxes (2,000) of IBM cards full of JCL, program, and data cards, and then waiting. Seems like those computers (360?) could not have had sufficient memory for file/data searching. Is that correct?
Many thanks, George
ges@poboxes.com
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