On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:56 PM, jim stephens <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 11/11/2016 8:53 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > >> >> On 11/11/16 7:42 AM, Paul Koning wrote: >> >> No one is making new 80 column punched card stock either. >>>> >>> No stock, or no cards? I would think that one of the paper >>> manufacturers would be putting out postcard stock of the right >>> specifications. >>> >> This has been discussed for several years here. No one is making paper >> stock to IBM card stock specifications. >> > A friend I know in St. Louis had them made regularly at an client's > operation. The card stock for credit card pull forms is correct. They may > still have the dies for their machines. However I don't think the favors > exist to get more made. > > Can check though. The card stock comes in 12' diameter rolls, so it > isn't a "pretty please" sort of favor to get the machines set up that > handle the manufacturing process. Think rolls of paper the size of > newsprint, and weighing in at 3000# + > > They might also be able to do paper tape, though I'd favor if it is a > scratch operation doing it from mylar, even though that is hard on punches. > > thanks > Jim > > Using a paper folder to convert roll to fanfold has also been discussed. >> >> Nothing has resulted from either discussion. >> >> >> Somewhere I have a photo of the machine that IBM used to make punch cards. It's in a small museum in Endicott, NY. It did indeed take a roll of paper made to IBM specs and produce the flat punch cards many of us know and some subset of those, love. It hadn't been run in years when I saw it. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
