13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
5:51 a.m.
On 12/12/2015 11:06 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 12/12/2015 08:18 AM, Tulsamike3434 at gmail.com
wrote:
Thank you Jon that makes more sense!
So did you have to learn how to read the punch hole cards also or did
the punch hole cards go into the computer and than printed out the
data on the fan fold paper also was it in code or just plane English?
You COULD
read the holes, if you really HAD to. Keypunches printed
the alphanumeric form on the top edge of the cards. if you punched a
deck of cards on the CPU's card punch, there was no printing. If it
was an "object deck" ie. binary code, you would never "interpret" the
deck. But, if it had something that might be human readable, there
was a machine called an interpreter, and it would type the symbols on
the top of the card for you.
Jon