12 May
2015
12 May
'15
9:01 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Koning
Sent: 12 May 2015 16:21
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: IBM 029 Card Punch and ASCII Machines
Do you have any descriptions of that? I have not seen any mention of a
CP11
On May 11, 2015, at 11:56 PM, Eric Smith
<spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se>
wrote:
I
don't know how common card readers were, but I don't think any DEC
machines could punch cards.
Almost all DEC machines up through early VAX supported card punch
options. They just weren't very common other than on PDP-10.
PDP-8: CP08
PDP-10: CP10 (multiple variants) and CP20
PDP-11 and VAX: CP11 in any peripherals handbook, nor in any OS. Was that
a CSS product? Who
built the punch engine? What sort of interface did it use?
paul
This site lists it as an M7824 card...
http://world.std.com/~mbg/pdp11-field-guide.txt
this page from Chilton Labs
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/icf/phase1/p007.htm
implies a punch is available, but neither say which model punch...
Dave