Display-less computing was Re: TOP POSTING

[Jon Elson]

On 12/12/2015 08:18 AM, Tulsamike3434 at gmail.com wrote:
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> So did you have to learn how to read the punch hole cards also or did the punch hole cards go into the computer and than printed out the data on the fan fold paper also was it in code or just plane English?
You COULD read the holes, if you really HAD to.  Keypunches 
printed the alphanumeric form on the top edge of the cards.  
if you punched a deck of cards on the CPU's card punch, 
there was no printing.  If it was an "object deck" ie. 
binary code, you would never "interpret" the deck.  But, if 
it had something that might be human readable, there was a 
machine called an interpreter, and it would type the symbols 
on the top of the card for you.

Jon