14 Sep
1999
14 Sep
'99
4:16 p.m.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
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.
Not really, as I recall, even an engineer could run one :) As to
capacity, my (probably foggy) recollection is that they held about a page
and a half of text.
- don
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote:
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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.
>>>> "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.
>>
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