30 Mar
1999
30 Mar
'99
7:28 p.m.
On 30 Mar 99 at 13:47, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
In my case it's been more than 40 years, but ISTR a duplicater in which
you'd insert the "bent, spindalled, mutilated card " and a blank card and
it
would copy(punch) the defective card. You'd only have to go to the adjoining
keypunch room to get it made if the card was totally beyond repair and wouldn't
feed in the amazingly forgiving duplicater. Mind you since the punch card room
had some 20 operaters(x-typists) all female including my current girlfriend of
the time, we found many cards unable to be duplicated.
I don't remember any of these machines also able to print info on the cards,
which would stand to reason since all of them had data which wouldn't fit in
the top space. For that we used the interpreter wired to print the identifying
data.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
#026 and #029 keypunches, nor the punch outputs
of most computers, did
NOT print anything on the card.
OOPS!
WRONG!
#026 and #029 keypunches could, and by default did, print what they
punched. The punch output of most computers, nor most of the stand-alone
card duplicators, did not. The unique *RARE* SPECIAL model in the #029
series was the one that could "interpret" (print) the contents of cards
that it was READING, not punching. It was especially useful, because it
had an 80 column printhead, whereas the stand-alone interptreter was a 60
column unit.
Sorry about the wrong info. It's been less than 30 years - must be
coming down with some of that alzh^h^h^h^h "old-timer's disease"
I have 2 keypunch drums that I don't seem to use much any more. Does
anybody need one? (I'm keeping one, just in case.)