Yeah, we used them for notecards and shopping lists until I used up my entire stock sometime in the nineties.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Punched cards and character set Up until a couple of weeks ago I had a full box of 2000 that I absconded with in the early 90's. Now I'm down to about 1900. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 9:21 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter, you may want to go to eBay and/or Amazon and price punch cards. You > may be able to make a buck or two on those in your attic. I looked at this > a while ago - thought I might want to use some old ones for notepads and > bookmarks, and found they're now considered antique arcana. I'm looking > now, and the cheapest I see off-hand on eBay is a pack of 50 for $12. More > common is about 50 cents per card. And here's one ("Vintage IBM punch card > Hollerith PUNCHED PRINTED used IBM mainframe"), a lot of 30 for which he's > asking $1995 (no decimal point). I'm sure it'll still be there when you go > there to look incredulously :). > > Oh, wait, here's a cheaper one: Ten thousand cards for the low, low price > of $1650 (plus 127.25 shipping). You can break them up and sell them in > lots of 100 for $40 each and make a killing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap. -Spanish proverb > */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 > Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:43 > > Sorry, I don't have any actual JCL on physical punched cards any more. > Somewhere in the attic I may have a box or two of blank ones, but nothing > with punches. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > > R.S. > Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:20 AM > > ....Does anynone have JCL statements on punched cards? I would like to > get/download some images of JOB, EXEC, and DD statements on punched cards. I > have a lot of card pictures, but none with JCL. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
