11 Mar
2025
11 Mar
'25
12:37 a.m.
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