[COFF] [Simh] Of DEC and cards

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Feb 15 15:10:53 AEST 2020


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, Clem Cole wrote:

> [...] but  I just don't remember seeing actual card readers or punches 
> on the PDP-11s, only on the IBM, Univac and CDC systems. 

We had a small CDC card reader on our 11/40 for some reason; I wrote the 
driver, and it ran in two modes: straight binary i.e. all holes returned 
"as is", or NL-terminated ASCII.  I think the source of the cards was a
Cyber 72, but can't be sure.

-- Dave


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