From sauer at technologists.com Tue Mar 11 07:45:28 2025 From: sauer at technologists.com (Charles H Sauer (he/him)) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:45:28 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard Message-ID: https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html [50 years ago today I started working at IBM Yorktown. My boxes of punchcards from graduate work at UT-Austin were enroute with the movers from Austin, to be fed into VM-370 after they arrived. I wish I had kept those boxes as souvenirs.] Charlie -- voice: +1.512.784.7526 e-mail: sauer at technologists.com fax: +1.512.346.5240 Web: https://technologists.com/sauer/ Facebook/Google/LinkedIn/mas.to: CharlesHSauer From whm at msweng.com Tue Mar 11 08:11:01 2025 From: whm at msweng.com (William H. Mitchell) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:11:01 -0700 Subject: [COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: One of my first feelings of starting to master things, back at NC State in 1976, was when I learned how to add and delete characters from a punch card. William Mitchell Mitchell Software Engineering Occasional Adjunct Instructor at U of AZ CS Discord: whm#5716, Twitter: @x77686d, Skype: x77686d linkedin.com/in/x77686d > On Mar 10, 2025, at 2:45 PM, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote: > > https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html > > [50 years ago today I started working at IBM Yorktown. My boxes of punchcards from graduate work at UT-Austin were enroute with the movers from Austin, to be fed into VM-370 after they arrived. I wish I had kept those boxes as souvenirs.] From classiccmp at earthlink.net Tue Mar 11 10:37:10 2025 From: classiccmp at earthlink.net (David C. Jenner) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:37:10 -0700 Subject: [COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9f41afdd-fdc1-4cb4-a75e-8e3b19271814@earthlink.net> My first punch cards were in 1962, a first program for an IBM 709 Assembly Language class. We used 026 card punches. I wanted to emphasize a line in the comments region with an exclamation mark. Not finding one on the 026, I did what we were taught in typing class--type period, backspace, type apostrophe. My first program was, of course, rejected by the card reader. I think my box of program punch cards from many years of computing is somewhere in storage in my garage. As well as a box of unused, original cards from computing centers all over the country.^H' Dave On 3/10/25 2:45 PM, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote: > https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html > > [50 years ago today I started working at IBM Yorktown. My boxes of > punchcards from graduate work at UT-Austin were enroute with the movers > from Austin, to be fed into VM-370 after they arrived. I wish I had kept > those boxes as souvenirs.] > > Charlie From crypto at glassblower.info Tue Mar 11 12:07:32 2025 From: crypto at glassblower.info (Tony Patti) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:07:32 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard In-Reply-To: <9f41afdd-fdc1-4cb4-a75e-8e3b19271814@earthlink.net> References: <9f41afdd-fdc1-4cb4-a75e-8e3b19271814@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <180401db922a$59b4e270$0d1ea750$@glassblower.info> idk, when I type "TONY" into https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html it does not match the output which I have at https://www.glassblower.info/crypto/tony-punch-card.jpg But maybe that's because, to find this punch card in my basement, in the 7th box which I looked in tonight, that box was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard" :) My punch card is from Wharton's awesome KL-10 DECsystem-10, circa 1980, contemporaneous photos here: https://glassblower.info/Wharton-DECsystem-10/Wharton-DECsystem-10.html Tony Patti (ARPAnet NIC IDENT "TP4") crypto at glassblower.info -----Original Message----- From: David C. Jenner Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 8:37 PM To: Charles H Sauer (he/him) ; COFF Subject: [COFF] Re: Make your own virtual punchcard My first punch cards were in 1962, a first program for an IBM 709 Assembly Language class. We used 026 card punches. I wanted to emphasize a line in the comments region with an exclamation mark. Not finding one on the 026, I did what we were taught in typing class--type period, backspace, type apostrophe. My first program was, of course, rejected by the card reader. I think my box of program punch cards from many years of computing is somewhere in storage in my garage. As well as a box of unused, original cards from computing centers all over the country.^H' Dave On 3/10/25 2:45 PM, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote: > https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html > > [50 years ago today I started working at IBM Yorktown. My boxes of > punchcards from graduate work at UT-Austin were enroute with the > movers from Austin, to be fed into VM-370 after they arrived. I wish I > had kept those boxes as souvenirs.] > > Charlie