29 Dec
2002
29 Dec
'02
6:33 p.m.
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
And don't forget the silliness of punching graphic
images on cards. I was
showing punch cards to my OS class, including portapunch (right after a
certain Florida election). I wanted to show them some of the variations,
such as round-hole and other sizes (there are some great stories about
some of those!), and the only example of the half sized card that I had
was punched with holes making a picture of a hand giving the finger.
I won't make an effort to read those cards ;)
Why not just read two columns, each of which is twelve
bits, pass that
as three bytes of raw binary, and then decode in the host machine?
That's a pretty good idea. But I kinda prefer programming on the Apple
//e and like the idea of having it do the translation so that it spits
out raw ASCII. Plus it's much funner ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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