{"id":415,"date":"2008-02-25T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/415"},"modified":"2008-03-04T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:51:29","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-ncsu-computer-punch-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/415\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ncsu-computer-punch-card","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> NCSU Computer Punch Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ncsu_punchcard_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ncsu_punchcard_small.jpg\" alt=\"NCSU Computer Punch Card\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this wonderfully stamped card in an old, metal, 20-drawer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punch_card\" target=\"_blank\">punch card<\/a> filing cabinet that I bought from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">N.C. State University<\/a> surplus sale late last year.  Actually, it was one of many hundreds of such cards, most of which were rubber-banded together in program stacks for the psychology department.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no expert on punch card-era computers, so I&#8217;ll let the more knowledgeable amongst us do the talking.  It&#8217;s a great piece of history, though.  I&#8217;m currently using the <a href=\"\/wp-content\/ncsu_card_cabinet.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">card cabinet<\/a> as a tool chest.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this wonderfully stamped card in an old, metal, 20-drawer punch card filing cabinet that I bought from a N.C. State University surplus sale late last year. Actually, it was one of many hundreds of such cards, most of which were rubber-banded together in program stacks for the psychology department. I&#8217;m no expert on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-recent-finds","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}