It might be worth trying to talk to the IBM Museum at Hursley.
https://slx-online.biz/hursley/contact_us.asp
Dave
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Subject: RE: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral
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At 07:16 PM 22/07/2019 +0200, Mattis Lind wrote:
> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines
as a future restoration
> project. But can I find a service manual? No. None online, only one
> for the later 028. And even if there was a PDF
2_24-26_
5_24-Bas
Last time I looked, in Sept 2018 I had previously found:
http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-era-ibm-keypunch.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pfsullivan_1056/16296856470
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Keypunch/029/225-3357-
3_29_FE_Maint_Man_Nov70.pdf
Bitsavers has a user manual:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Keypunch/A24-0520-
2_24-26_Keypunches.pdf
And a field manual:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Keypunch/225-6535-
5_24-Base_Machines_FEMM_Dec65.pdf
But no schematics still.
Your first URL is 404'd, though I already had that doc. Seems there's been
a
tree structure re-org.
Now there's these:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Keypunch/024-026/
123-7091-3_24_25_Parts_Catalog_Apr1963.pdf
225-6535-5_24-Base_Machines_FEMM_Dec65.pdf
22-8319-
0_24_26_Customer_Engineering_Preliminary_Manual_of_Instruction_1950.
pdf
229-3125_24-26_Operators_Guide.pdf
A24-0520-3_24_26_Card_Punch_Reference_Manual_Oct1965.pdf
Downloaded.
Looks like a good complete set, for mechanicals. Still no overall
schematic.
Maybe it didn't exist?
Gosh it's a scary-complicated machine. I'm not looking forward to finding
the
gotchas, like obscure parts buried deep in the guts
that have perished
rubber
bits, complex precision surface-hardened things that
are just plain worn
out
and unobtainium, etc.
> I expect it would be the usual terrible
quality.
Pleasant surprise! The image quality of all those PDFs is pretty good. But
all
still a mix of 2-tone and JPG encoding, with all their
various artifacts.
Fortunately at high enough res to preserve all information. High enough
even
to (mostly) preserve the ink screening dots in
images.
I'd still like to find original paper copies, both as a historical set
with
the
machines, and to scan-encode-wrap 'my way' for
better looking digital
versions.
> Ditto for a service/schematics manual for the
Documation TM200 punch
card reader. No copy can be found.
Do you expect the TM200 to be substantially
different from the M200? My
guess is that they are quite similar.
Gone down the route of reverese engineering the
differences?
The TM200 has extra circuitry (more cards, wiring) than the M200, since it
also
reads optical mark-sense cards.
Which means if ultimately I'm forced to reverse engineer the diferences,
it's
going to be a lot of work.
There's no rush and plenty of other projects. I'd rather just wait more to
see
if a correct manual turns up.
Not to mention that I'd like to find that manual in order to scan it.
Guy