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anyone recognize this?
12-07-2017, 07:55 AM
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(12-07-2017 02:20 AM)BobVA Wrote:  
(12-06-2017 11:38 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Bob, here is the punch you remember. It is used for carriage control paper tapes on IBM printers:

Don

OK, the second I saw that I heard a blast of Bachman-Turner Overdrive in my head and could see it sitting *right there* on the window sill by the punched card reader :-)

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I haven't seen one of those since we decommissioned our little IBM remote batch station (HASP, anyone?) in favor of an HP mini with CRT terminals in about 1977. I hope it's sitting somewhere in the Math department still faithfully holding down papers. Thanks for the blast for the past!

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anyone recognize this? - Don Shepherd - 12-06-2017, 08:02 PM
RE: anyone recognize this? - Don Shepherd - 12-06-2017, 09:08 PM
RE: anyone recognize this? - SlideRule - 12-06-2017, 10:09 PM
RE: anyone recognize this? - BobVA - 12-06-2017, 11:22 PM
RE: anyone recognize this? - Don Shepherd - 12-06-2017, 11:38 PM
RE: anyone recognize this? - BobVA - 12-07-2017, 02:20 AM
RE: anyone recognize this? - Don Shepherd - 12-07-2017 07:55 AM



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