I never had the pleasure to use the punch cards, I was just collecting ild hardware. (Kind of a 'know your history thing') I did however use the last 9 track drive systems produced. Was working on them up until I moved. On the 'know your history', I saw a hipster the other day at City Creek wearing a shirt with that slogan. It had a picture of the original Nintendo controller. Almost spit out my triple venti mocha chip cappuccino. Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors. On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:17 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Hollerith cards, man those were the days. You've come a long way, baby. (And if you remember the product that slogan advertized, then you truly are an "old timer"...)
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Heh. I bought the Burroughs intake hopper from the Utah State University bid sale. Had a couple decks of unpunched cards too.
Unfortunately, it didn't survive the great purge of 2002 (aka my move to Denver).
When I was working at Visa a few years later, there was a contest to identify old computer hardware. I was the only one on the floor to identify the 80 byte punch card.
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