Request for Punchards with custom message
Does anyone have the time, working machine and cards to print 250 cards with the words "UNPRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE" on them? They are needed by Jan. 15 in California. Before you ask: VCF's punch card machine is broken. Dave McGuire can't Mike Loewen can't System Source can't Take care! Jeff Brace <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
Jeff: I have another thought about this. The first word, UNPRODUCTIVE, is too long to fit on a single line of the card, using block letters (at least on my program). It might be possible for someone to create a smaller block font, but my program will only print at most 8 characters on a line. I used a 5x8 font. On Mon, 5 Jan 2026, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Does anyone have the time, working machine and cards to print 250 cards with the words "UNPRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE" on them? They are needed by Jan. 15 in California.
Before you ask: VCF's punch card machine is broken. Dave McGuire can't Mike Loewen can't System Source can't
Take care!
Jeff Brace
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Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
Hello! Are these Hollerith style cards which were 80 columns before anyone thought of computers other than the Babbage idea? Or that odd 96 wide one that the 1130 uses? ---- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Does anyone have the time, working machine and cards to print 250 cards with the words "UNPRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE" on them? They are needed by Jan. 15 in California.
Before you ask: VCF's punch card machine is broken. Dave McGuire can't Mike Loewen can't System Source can't
Take care!
Jeff Brace
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Mike Loewen