When I worked as a jr. IBM operator in the 50s there was a card-punch room
that had a bank of about 20 of these staffed by young women. When a bad
card had to be duplicated sometimes, shredded in the sorter usually, we
would take them to the "girls" and engage at the usual banter. I think
occasionally we wanted jammed cards just to take them in.
Ordinarily they were entering data on cards all day. Pretty boring.
Lawrence
>
> Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives:
>
> http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punch&gro
> uptag=IBM026
>
> A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the
> weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or
> punching so it definitely needs some more TLC.
>
> Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this September
> (dates to be announced very, very soon).
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 01:22:42 BST