Punch Cards ???

[Cain]

Who here used punch cards ???

Who here knows what a punch card is ???

[Sirex]

know what they are, seen some, never used thou

[Trooper110]

It wasn't an actual punch card, but we had a card similar to that you had to slide down in the clock, think it used a magnetic strip, wasn't a fun system.

[Duke{CLR}]

Now I have heard that punch cards were used in computing is some sort of way. My father worked for IBM form 40.5 years and he used to tell me about them and the 12" hdd disks that held a small amount of data.

Now if you are talking about time cards then I had to use one at the restaurant I worked at as a teenager.

[BigTwinky]

My first job, I had a punch card. Not an actual punch, more of a paper card that I would slide in a clock that would stamp the IN and OUT.

In a later job, I was actually implementing punch clocks in printing plants... not the physical installation, but more of the configuration of the software and rules around how the hours that are clocked are handled, along with training of the managers and what not. They were the magnetic strip plastic cards most companies use today.

[Cain]

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[ViTO]

Who here used punch cards ???

Who here knows what a punch card is ???

If your talking about one of these you are REALLY showing your age



I remember using something like that when I was taking tests in grade school LOL

[ViTO]

oh snap we posting at the same time.

[ch33s3r]

LOL

[Apache Warrior]

How about a Punch & Judy Card.
Apache

[mapes]

My dad had brought punch cards home. He probably has them stored next to the Altos machine with the dual EIGHT INCH FLOPPY DRIVES!

[Cain]

If your talking about one of these you are REALLY showing your age



I remember using something like that when I was taking tests in grade school LOL

that is it !! We were doing Fortran IV programming on those thing s!!

[DennisM7]

I know what they are how to use them and maintain the equipment to read and make them

i know paper tape too

[paceman]

I used them in school AND I still have a bunch.

I learned FORTRAN, RPGII, Assembler and COBOL using punch cards.

The first Datacenter I worked at the manager didn't trust disk drives, so for ever AR record that went in a disk file, he also had the program punch a card. At month end he had a cabinet full of cards that had to be read in to verify that the disk data was correct. LOL!

[Todd98]

Who here used punch cards ???

Who here knows what a punch card is ???

I used 1 at the grocery store warehouse were i used to work at back in the mid 80's