[AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

I believe the 026's only punched BCD and the 029 EBCDIC

Tesiny, Ed wrote:

>You're not alone, we had three 029s where all our research projects data
>were entered and verified.  Then we took the cards up to the university
>to read them into the UNIVAC 1100.  We used dial-ups ( 300 baud) from
>our office (DecWriters I think) to get to the mainframe at the
>university.  It was nice, however, on  a sunny summer day to send a
>print job to university where they had a little beer garden ;-))
>
>Ed Tesiny
>EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us
> 
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
>>
>>I'm feeling very OLD right now.
>>
>>GK
>>
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