Here's a nice one online: http://www.kloth.net/services/cardpunch.php
This would be super-easy to do in Rev. 10 different ways. we could do this in ON-REV if we could get access to some of the graphics and stack stuff, like the templates. ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/11/20 Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com> > > Hi Francis, > > The way that you describe this task of early computer programming, > it sounds like a mental and physical challenge. > > Did you know if there is some multimedia simulation of card > punching programming, made with Flash, Director, > Hypercard or Runrev? > > Alejandro > > > Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > > > Hi from Paris, > > > > Stephen Barncard sent : > > > >> If one has ever had to work with punched cards > >> (and I have not) genuinely > >> deserves the title "hard core". > > > > Not only did I work with punched cards (and I think > > there are more of you out there), but when the IBM026 > > and 029 card punches were not yet available, we used > > the Hollerith key punch to punch our cards by hand. > > > > Thems were the good old days, when (if I remember > > correctly, the left bracket was 12-0-1-8-9, that is > > 5 holes in the same column. Needless to say, we often > > made mistakes, but it took so long to punch a card, that > > we used to stick the confetti back in the holes, and then > > correct the cards. Obviously, after feeding the cards > > through the reader, a few times, the wire brushes often > > knocked out the confetti, and we got a "reader check". > > Then we had to examine the card and decide what hole the > > confetti had fallen out of !! > > > > And my VERY FIRST program on the IBM 1401 involved punching > > up the whole program in machine code, including the bootstrap. > > If you have never punched the command "Set character to word mark", > > you have never really lived ..... :>) > > > > Oh my God - Am I that old ? > > > > -Francis > > > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time - but it often was !" > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Looking-for-a-defined-path-to-learn-Rev-for-new-users-tp624612p628163.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution