14 Sep
1999
14 Sep
'99
2:03 p.m.
If I can find the MagCard manual, I'll see if I can find the capacity. I
don't know if it mirrored the punch card or not, although I think it
held more data. They were supposed to be terrors to run.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote:
I think you're right. You are the second person
to ID the cards as from an early memory typewriter. I should have mentioned in my earlier
post that each of the cards was paperclipped to a carbon copy of a document. Based on the
length of the documents, these cards didn't hold much.
I have posted a scan of a couple of these cards at
http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/_uimages/IBMCards.jpg to the extent that it helps in
further IDing them.
Thanks.
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"Merle K. Peirce" <at258(a)osfn.org> 09/14 2:16 AM >>>
Sounds
like a magcard, probably from an old MagcardII typewriter or a
Displaywriter.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote:
I was just going through a box of old files
(circa 1970) that my office is throwing out and I found four cards that I need an ID on.
>>They are the same size and shape as a standard puch card, but appear to be made of
some sort of magnetic media. They are >>approximately the color of standard
magnetic cassette tape on one side, and nearly black on the other. Each card has
"IBM" >>printed on it in white with a direction arrow next to it in one
corner of the card directly opposite the notch. In the corner with the >>notch
there are two groups of 3 digits, also in white.
The cards have what appear to be track marks on them in three parallel rows on the
horizontal, as if fed through a reader.
Thanks. If it would be useful I post a scan of one of these.
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid !
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid