At a previous site, I think we pushed the card punches out the door in about 1986. By the time we got rid of them (both an 029 and an 026) the only thing they were used for was replication of boot cards. We were running an NCR Century 200 that did a boot from cards to give it enough intelligence to do the real OS boot from disk.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Last card reader? Wondering when the last card reader died. We had one at University of Waterloo until 1984 or 1985; we had a full professor who insisted on using cards. We finally told him he'd have to pay the maintenance-that convinced him (or, more likely, his Dean) that it was time to use terminals. What's the latest anyone remembers using a card reader? BTW, http://www.cardamation.com/punchcardmedia.html claims to still sell them, if you need an 80-byte fix! -- ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html The information contained in this e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and that you will be held responsible for any such unauthorized activity, including liability for any resulting damages. As appropriate, such incident(s) may also be reported to law enforcement. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to sender and destroy or delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
