22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
5:45 a.m.
Does anyone know where to find a punched card reader
these days? I'm looking for a small desktop unit that
I could interface to a PC.
In the 1976-1978 timeframe my high school leased a desktop reader made
by H-P which would read either mark-sense or punched cards, and output
serial data. It was hooked up in tandem with an ASR33 Teletype for
access to a TOPS-10 timesharing system (BOCES NCODE on Long Island).
It made a goose like "honk" each time it read a card.