28 May
2002
28 May
'02
2:09 p.m.
Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punc…
A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this September
(dates to be announced very, very soon).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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28 May
28 May
2:30 p.m.
--- Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote:
Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punc…
A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
Nice. Let me know what you learn. I have one, too. Mine has the docs
in the base; do you need copies?
-ethan
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6:10 p.m.
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punc…
A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this
September (dates to be announced very, very soon).
Is tube no. 6 missing or just optional?
Looks like a really fun project too :P
-Toth
29 May
29 May
12:59 p.m.
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
Is tube no. 6 missing or just optional?
Missing, which is probably why the keyboard doesn't work. According to
John L. it's a common tube (25L6) so I'm going out to look for a
replacement today.
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6:47 p.m.
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
It appears that IBM even sold a branded tube for these machines at one
time: [http://members.tripod.com/~Helicopterman/82105.jpg] linked from:
[http://members.tripod.com/~Helicopterman/blank-8.html].
-Toth
Is tube no. 6 missing or just optional?
Missing, which is probably why the keyboard doesn't work. According
to John L. it's a common tube (25L6) so I'm going out to look for a
replacement today. 
28 May
28 May
6:47 p.m.
Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20P
unch&grouptag=IBM026
A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this
September
(dates to be announced very, very soon).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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29 May
29 May
1:01 p.m.
On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was lucky to
find this one, in as good a shape as it's in (I suspect this is a
testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
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1:03 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
Thats because you paid several times over the real cost in rental fees.
--
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Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was lucky to
find this one, in as good a shape as it's in (I suspect this is a
testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
1:43 p.m.
Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts here had the 029
keypunch machines for sale from $1 to $20. Now I can't find one to save
my life.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
to
Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was lucky find this one, in as good a shape as it's in (I
suspect this is a
testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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2:06 p.m.
--- "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> wrote:
Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts
here had the 029
keypunch machines for sale from $1 to $20.
Where the *F* do you live? I've never seen any sort of equipment
of that sort at the thrifts around me. My 026 came out of Bordon
Chemical when they dumped their old PDP-11/70s. It hadn't been used
in years, obviously.
Now I can't find one to save my life.
The last time I saw more than one in one place at one time was at
Ohio State, c. 1983. They went from punch cards to crappy terminals
on the "Wylbur" system around then.* Shoulda heard the Grad Students
wail when they took the old stuff away. They had years of warning,
but some hadn't yet entered the post-punch-card era.
-ethan
* Wylbur was so crappy, it made ed look like WYSIWYG. I opted for the
3270 terminals at the main facility - there was a line sometimes, but
the editing experience was sooo much nicer.
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To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
to
Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was lucky find this one, in as good a shape as it's in
(I suspect this is a
testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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2:42 p.m.
The Goodwill's here in Houston could not give them away back in '94 and
'95. A place that is no longer here called Purple Heart used to have
them up the second floor of their building with the furniture and TV's.
Value Village took over the store and things are different as to what
they will take in now. If you read the Goodwill signs in the donation
area they do not take computers and TV's as donations anymore but
somehow they always have both in some of the stores. I use to see them
at a small auction house here all the time and no one would bid on them.
I was not into the big stuff back then and now I kick myself in the butt
for not getting a couple of these and other items for little or nothing
in cost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
lucky
--- "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> wrote:
> Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts here had the
029
keypunch
machines for sale from $1 to $20.
Where the *F* do you live? I've never seen any sort of equipment
of that sort at the thrifts around me. My 026 came out of Bordon
Chemical when they dumped their old PDP-11/70s. It hadn't been used
in years, obviously.
Now I can't find one to save my life.
The last time I saw more than one in one place at one time was at
Ohio State, c. 1983. They went from punch cards to crappy terminals
on the "Wylbur" system around then.* Shoulda heard the Grad Students
wail when they took the old stuff away. They had years of warning,
but some hadn't yet entered the post-punch-card era.
-ethan
* Wylbur was so crappy, it made ed look like WYSIWYG. I opted for the
3270 terminals at the main facility - there was a line sometimes, but
the editing experience was sooo much nicer.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
>
>
> > On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
> >
> > Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was > to
> > find this one, in as good a shape as it's in (I suspect this is a
> > testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage
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30 May
30 May
12:58 p.m.
On Wed, 29 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts
here had the 029
keypunch machines for sale from $1 to $20. Now I can't find one to save
my life.
You're kidding, right? You used to find keypunches in thrift stores? For
$1-$20? And you didn't buy any?
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3:24 p.m.
No this is for real several stores here use to take large computer items
for resale but not any more. The main Goodwill store once had a IBM
system 36 and no one including me took even after the price went down to
a dollar. I had micro's on the brain and nothing else.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
For
On Wed, 29 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts here had the
029
> keypunch machines for sale from $1 to $20. Now I
can't find one to
save
my life.
You're kidding, right? You used to find keypunches in thrift stores? $1-$20? And you didn't buy any?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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29 May
29 May
1:22 a.m.
When I worked as a jr. IBM operator in the 50s there was a card-punch room
that had a bank of about 20 of these staffed by young women. When a bad
card had to be duplicated sometimes, shredded in the sorter usually, we
would take them to the "girls" and engage at the usual banter. I think
occasionally we wanted jammed cards just to take them in.
Ordinarily they were entering data on cards all day. Pretty boring.
Lawrence
Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punc…
uptag=IBM026
A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this September
(dates to be announced very, very soon).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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