Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > alt.folklore.computers > #208485

Re: Remington Rand punched card

From scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject Re: Remington Rand punched card
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
References <7a1941f4-f27d-4a14-b502-5ba9e6aac0c3@googlegroups.com> <qsc2nq18b0@news2.newsguy.com> <88e60337-56d9-4503-bfa8-22acce69d6be@googlegroups.com>
Message-ID <J6aHF.22189$ej.7128@fx18.iad> (permalink)
Organization UsenetServer - www.usenetserver.com
Date 2019-12-08 17:08 +0000

Show all headers | View raw


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
>On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 6:10:17 PM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> If you zoom in on the second one you can see the same 90-column
>> cards that I played with a bit in the late '60s.  The cards are
>> the same dimensions as IBM's 80-column cards, and have the same
>> 12 rows, but the 45 columns are divided into upper and lower tiers -
>> perfect for 6-bit codes.
>
>IBM cards used to have round holes and 45 columns.  But then
>around 1930 IBM developed the rectangular 80 column format.
>Univac kept the round holes, but went to a 90 column format.

I've got some blank Burroughs 90-column cards here in my hand.

Although I never saw any 90-column gear during my years with
Burroughs/Unisys, even after the acquisition of Sperry/Univac.

Back to alt.folklore.computers | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-05 12:29 -0800
  Re: Remington Rand punched card Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-05 23:09 +0000
    Re: Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 13:30 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:45 -0800
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:49 -0800
        Re: Remington Rand punched card hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 14:27 -0800
          Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 19:20 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 13:46 -0800
      Re: Remington Rand punched card scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-08 17:08 +0000
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-08 18:59 +0000
        Re: Remington Rand punched card Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-08 20:57 -0800

csiph-web