8 Mar
2013
8 Mar
'13
7:18 a.m.
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.