I will be happy to reink a printer ribbon and punch/print some 96 column cards if there is any demand for them at half that price :) Bob On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:55:52 -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:

They were good for quick corrections. If you look in the chart of hollerith codes, at least on IBM, you could punch out all 12 holes on the card and they could be ignored data. So if you had a program that could hack it, you could pull out a card, punch out all the holes over the data, and then put in other data following the end, or whereever you desired. It actually was easier for me to use the manual punch for the few cases I ever corrected a card than it was to use the keypunch, because you could not see the card as clearly as you can with the manual one. Not that you had to have one. Also it was easier, at least to me to use the 029 to do the correcting than the 129, just because you had to get the magic number just right on the 129 before you punched the thing. also if you were doing a rubout on an 029, it was easier to dupe up to an error spot, then just rekey the data, obviously, given the proximity of an 029 and a supply of cards. On 10/17/05, Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:08:06 -0400 (EDT), William Donzelli wrote: I have several Zenith cards, they are perforated so 1/3 could be removed for the customer record and the 2/3 length card remaining could be sent in as a reorder card. They had to have some funky reader to read the short cards. Bob