[COFF] Make your own virtual punchcard

[Tony Patti]

idk, when I type "TONY" into 
https://boingboing.net/2025/03/10/make-your-own-virtual-punchcard.html
it does not match the output which I have at
https://www.glassblower.info/crypto/tony-punch-card.jpg

But maybe that's because, to find this punch card in my basement, in the 7th box which I looked in tonight,
that box was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory, 
with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard" :)

My punch card is from Wharton's awesome KL-10 DECsystem-10, circa 1980, contemporaneous photos here:
https://glassblower.info/Wharton-DECsystem-10/Wharton-DECsystem-10.html

Tony Patti
(ARPAnet NIC IDENT "TP4")
crypto at glassblower.info


-----Original Message-----
From: David C. Jenner <classiccmp at earthlink.net> 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 8:37 PM
To: Charles H Sauer (he/him) <sauer at technologists.com>; COFF <coff at tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Make your own virtual punchcard

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