[HN Gopher] Make It with Punched Cards (1971)
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Make It with Punched Cards (1971)
Author : Turing_Machine
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-12-24 20:35 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (archive.org)
| blincoln wrote:
| I wonder if anyone's recovered any interesting data from these,
| like a digital palimpsest.
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| My father has a croquet set that my grandfather made, and the
| signs on the hoops are made from University of Washington
| computing punchcards from the 60s or 70s, but the whole set is
| maybe 128 bytes of data, so I've never decoded them.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| My favourites were the projects which took advantage of the
| nature of the medium: bookmark & skyline night light.
| krylon wrote:
| I half expected a card game made out of punched cards. Which
| would be a cool idea, now that I think of it.
| Isamu wrote:
| When I was a kid somebody made a bunch of Christmas wreaths with
| punchcards. They were individually twisted in a cone shape and
| stapled together maybe 3 feet in diameter. And sprayed green.
| Kinda abstract which was a 70s style.
| blippage wrote:
| In the early 80's I was doing my computing 'A' levels at a
| technical college. I used to type my programs on one of those
| old-fashioned teletypes, which I think were a cast-off from a
| regional polytechnic. I think the computers did have keyboards,
| but there were only 3 of them, and competition was tight. So I
| used a teletype. Making a "backup" consisted of printing the
| program out to paper tape.
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| I kept the rolls of paper tape and occasionally used them as
| streamers, much to the curiosity of neighbours.
| ape4 wrote:
| You could also make designs, like a xmas tree, on a card by
| punching out a bunch of holes.
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| Found an example
| https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1209886220970426369
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