26 Aug
2005
26 Aug
'05
12:11 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jay West wrote:
The documation readers are somewhat available nowdays,
coming out of
election use. I believe early HP's used the documation (never checked that
myself). However, HP did actually produce a punch card reader, model 7261 or
7621 I seem to recall. I have one, and it's not terribly far down my "to be
restored" list. I actually used this same unit in high school on the HP2000,
so it WILL get restored someday. Many fond memories of this unit. Hope I
have enough spare bits to make it run again!
I have one of these readers as well. It's a 9869A Calculator Card Reader.
I also have another one with a different model (don't have it handy). It
was one of the candidates I selected when I first set out to get a punched
card reader working. Unfortunately, as with most HP equipment of this
era, the roller literally melted into a puddle of goo on the bottom of the
reader input hopper.
Does anyone know how fast these HP readers are supposed to be?
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