[vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 7/3/2016

[Mike Loewen]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, Bill Dromgoole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

> I was at the museum today with Bill Degnan.
> ...
> The last was a couple who were very interested in the punch cards and the card reader/printer on the IBM 1130.
> Apparently she used to work with punched cards and formatting data for the keypunch operators.

    You guys are welcome to fire up the keypunch.  It was working when I 
left it in February, but it needs to be exercised (or maybe exorcised). 
The printer needs work, but the basic functions should be okay.  The 
sensing pins on the read station also need lubrication, so duping cards 
doesn't work reliably.  You should be able to punch cards with it.


Mike Loewen				mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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