Comments on: Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal by: Zoyous

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:01:32 +0000

I remember being given massive stacks of punch cards to draw on when I was a young kid in the early 80s. So someone waited pretty late to phase them out, or they had been sitting around in a storage room for quite a while.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:01:06 +0000

Heh, that's pretty cool.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal by: viznut

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:03:59 +0000

Now that you mentioned abacus…

http://www.hh.schule.de/metalltechnik-didaktik/users/luetjens/abakus/japan/jap.htm#combi

At the end of the page: Sharp's "best-of-the-both-worlds" product combining an abacus and a pocket calculator.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal by: Benj Edwards

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:52:57 +0000

I seem to recall reading that article back in the day. Thanks for the links, Chris!

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: P1-14 Punch Card Terminal by: Chris

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:00:09 +0000

You would be surprised. Here's an article from 1999 about contemporary punch card installations:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/punchcards.html

And the punch card geezers are still in business:

http://www.cardamation.com/