26 Aug
2005
26 Aug
'05
1:56 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Brad Parker wrote:
Remember punchcards?
Why just remember? We're using them on our IBM 1130 and IBM 029 in our
museum.
Does anyone read them these days?
I'm just curious if anyone does, and if they do, how they do it.
Of course, reading them on the IBM 1442 reader and transfering them to a
Unix machine is no problem. We've attached a parallel to RS232 converter
to the IBM paper tape punch so we can read the cards and virtually "punch"
them to a modern Unix machine, both EBCDIC and binary cards.
Christian
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