Edge punched cards

Hi! Don' forget about the edge punched cards of "McBee Keysort Cards" so popular in the 1960's, at least in the USA! I still have a box of them in our basement waiting for the dumpster. Sure brings back memories of how things have changed so much in managing data on a personal basis. They really helped me with my Ph.D. thesis in organic chemistry with respect to all the references for doing the research and also for writing the thesis. I think I saw someplace on the internet a few months ago that someone was interested in them. If I recall correctly, they were possibly thinking about some sort of automated system of accessing them so that the info could be put into a computer. The cards were from sort of past big project. So you may want to do a Google search and see what you come up with. Frank PA USA In a message dated 3/6/2009 5:11:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes: Thining of edge-punched cards... The original membership cards for the Cambridge University Computer Preservation Society had 8-level paper-tape punchings along the bottom edge giving (IIRC) 'CUCPS' (im ASCII),. the member's computer userid (ditto) and the membership number (3 bytes, binary). I don;t think anyone ever tried to machine-read them though. -tony **************Need a job? Find employment help in your area. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcnt…)