10 Sep
2015
10 Sep
'15
8:40 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
look at ALL of the documentation of the period
NO ONE called them PUNCH cards
Section 7:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/200-21001B_B200_SeriesRefM…
"Punch card stock" "punch card peripherals"
Second to last page:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/terminals/brochures/U5219_DCT…
"punch card reading and handling"
3rd page in PDF:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/2000TSB/36000-91001_HP2000_contri…
"Punch card equipment test"
Section 5.3:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/philco/s-2000/TRANSAC_S-2000_System_…
"On-Line Punch Card System" "can read punch cards"
Page 23-5:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com//pdf/honeywell/multics/GB61-01B_Operator…
"different punch card decoding conventions"
While I prefer the term "punched card," I cannot agree with the
aforementioned capitalized generalizations.
Kyle