What were old screenless computers like the IBM 360 from

>>59579682
calculating the mass of your mother's ass.

>>59579682
Generating monthly statements. Printing bills. Processing the days transactions from punchcards and updating existing records stored on tape to a new tape, etc.

>>59580951
this. accounting shit, mostly. some of the crazy way-out-there futurists also used them to print pay cheques, but, wow, those guys were INSANE.

>>59579700
FPBP

>>59579682
the monitor is just another output device

>>59579682
>from Mad Men
In Mad Men it's used as a symbol. Looking at consumer technology today, not much has changed besides availability.

web servers

>>59582935
In the late 1960's?

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>>59579682
payroll and other accounting/financial tasks were a big one
inventory and employee/student management
controlling industrial equipment
number crunching for solving all kinds of scientific/engineering problems
shit's turing-complete, the uses were limitless within reason

>>59584766
maybe as a node on a big network, the S/360s of the late '60s would certainly be capable of such a thing

Porn

>>59580951
That and to play Colossal Cave.