________________________________________ From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of ben via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:45 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Repurposed Art (ahem...)
On 7/18/2017 2:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: >> at least they did not glue a bunch of gears on it and call it steam >> punk... >> I have run across weird glued and punked items on ebay... what a >> bunch >> of AH's > > a model 026 punch is already a masterpiece of steam punk. > > A model 029, on the other hand, appeals to trekkies. > > > I think that a keypunch rationalized as art needs a clock on it: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Melting-Clock-DT-/262670473087?hash=item3d2861577f:g:kE4AAOSwONBZFFUo Yes, but the clock runs counter - clockwise. > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com Did any one ever use keypunch to tape or 8' floppy? Ben. ____________________________________________ If you mean a commercial product in hardware, I doubt it. And, it wouldn't be "keypunch", now, would it? I did, however, develop a system when I was at West Point (many, many years ago) that did the equivalent. I developed a system under UCSD-Pascal running on Terak 8510 Micro Computers that allowed the offline input off data by the input (same as keypunch) operators from the USMA Admissions Office. It all went to 8" disks and at the end of the day the shift supervisor used another program I wrote to transfer it all to the Univac-1100 for overnight batch processing. I even got my picture in the Post Newspaper along with a story about "distributed data processing" coming to USMA. bill
