> > Does anyone know where to find a punched card reader
> > these days? I'm looking for a small desktop unit that
> > I could interface to a PC.
>
> In the 1976-1978 timeframe my high school leased a desktop reader made
> by H-P which would read either mark-sense or punched cards, and output
> serial data. It was hooked up in tandem with an ASR33 Teletype for
> access to a TOPS-10 timesharing system (BOCES NCODE on Long Island).
>
> It made a goose like "honk" each time it read a card.
>
I remember those, we had one on an HP2100. They were very nice
when they were working. They needed to re-aligned every few
months. Ours got very heavy usage in a University laboratory.
I believe ours had a parallel interface, but I suspect they
had several interfaces to the same mechanism.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 10:57:27 BST