If I can find the MagCard manual, I'll see if I can find the capacity. I
don't know if it mirrored the punch card or not, although I think it
held more data. They were supposed to be terrors to run.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote:
> I think you're right. You are the second person to ID the cards as from an early memory typewriter. I should have mentioned in my earlier post that each of the cards was paperclipped to a carbon copy of a document. Based on the length of the documents, these cards didn't hold much.
>
> I have posted a scan of a couple of these cards at http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/_uimages/IBMCards.jpg to the extent that it helps in further IDing them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >>>> "Merle K. Peirce" <at258_at_osfn.org> 09/14 2:16 AM >>>
> >Sounds like a magcard, probably from an old MagcardII typewriter or a
> >Displaywriter.
> >
> >On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote:
> >
> >> I was just going through a box of old files (circa 1970) that my office is throwing out and I found four cards that I need an ID on. >>They are the same size and shape as a standard puch card, but appear to be made of some sort of magnetic media. They are >>approximately the color of standard magnetic cassette tape on one side, and nearly black on the other. Each card has "IBM" >>printed on it in white with a direction arrow next to it in one corner of the card directly opposite the notch. In the corner with the >>notch there are two groups of 3 digits, also in white.
> >>
> >> The cards have what appear to be track marks on them in three parallel rows on the horizontal, as if fed through a reader.
> >>
> >> Thanks. If it would be useful I post a scan of one of these.
> >>
> >
> >M. K. Peirce
> >Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
> >215 Shady Lea Road,
> >North Kingstown, RI 02852
> >
> >"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
> >
> > - Ovid
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
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