IBM 550 Numerical Interpreter and IBM 557 Alphabetic Interpreter.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Kinda fun Stuart Holland wrote, in part: >Also, the cards only had the punches - no text across the top. That was called "interpreting" cards, IIRC. I forget whether there was a machine to do this (not that a site with no more punches or readers would have had one!), but I bet others here will remember. ObJoke: What, you didn't remember how to just glance at the cards and read the punches? (I'm 100% sure that back in the day there were folks who could!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
