[COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard

[David C. Jenner]

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