On 13 Feb, 2007, at 18:02, cctalk-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
I'm looking for a box or two of bog-standard 5081 punch cards.
Besides
Cardamation, is there anyone else who still has these?
I have some in the UK, so probably no good to you, and they are not
QUITE
the same as 5081, they are the same width and height but very
slightly thinner,
and marked up as 40 column mark sense cards, but my mainframe reads
and punches them fine, and my IBM keypunch used to punch them before
its drive belt broke. They are marked Kent County Council CDC 6998 & A.
I bought 110,000 of them back in the 70s, put them in my father's
Daimler
car and drove home. Next day my father backed the car out of the garage
and found I had broken the Panhard rod. Not noticeable going forwards
but going backwards the axle waggled from side to side and the rear
tyres
rubbed on the wheel spats (the Daimler V8-250 is a Jaguar Mk2 with a
2.5 Litre V8 Daimler engine in it).
By the way you didn't say if you wanted inner boxes of 2000 or outer
boxes of 10,000.
Roger Holmes, England.