The two bids where actually me pushing my bid up worrying that there
would be a snipe at the end but there was not...
No-one else wanted it, it was luckily only about and hour from me.
I have been slowly working on it, it now feeds and registers a card
correctly but my main problem is dirty relay contacts it seems.
I have zero experience as-well... The 024 and 026 were introduced 48
years before I was born so I honestly am tackling a new beast heh.
But I have been slowly making progress :)
Really they are complicated in their mechanics, the only overwhelming
thing with the electronics are the sheer number of wires, especially to
that keyboard!
For the keys I am going to try and 3D print semi close replacements
until I am lucky enough to find original keys...
I wish those looking for an 029 luck, they seem to be quite rare in
comparison to the 026 as I have previously said.
The only reasoning I have found for this is because IBM seem to have
sold off the rest of their inventory of 024/026 Keypunches and parts to
a company called MAI which kept them going well after they were intended...
Mine had a service booklet that says it had Service coverage affective
in 1970 for the US Army. This was 6 years after the 029 was released in
1964 and 21 years after the 026 was introduced!
Not to mention I think I have seen a service log entry into the early
80s (I have absolutely tons of these service logs)!!
I do although have the desk for an 029... Likely will never find the
guts but oh well it makes a cool desk until then :)
I got that for free from a set of the desks, the rest were trashed that
one was actually nice, but they used a bunch of trashed 029's to barely
get one working so it wasn't put to waste I suppose.
I at-least stopped the good desk from hitting the trash.
-Connork
On 6/6/2015 2:39 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On the one hand the 25K is ridiculously excessive; on the other I'm surprised
you were able to obtain one for so little, even in poor condition, and there
was so little bidding.
Replacing the missing keycaps may be difficult, but it otherwise looks quite
recoverable.
On 2015-Jun-05, at 6:21 PM, Connor Krukosky wrote:
That has been posted up for a LONG time and will likely NEVER sell at that
price or at any offer since this guy seems to think its made of gold.
It's less rare than an 029 seemingly anyway. The 026's seem to have had a lot
more of them run for a longer time, meaning more survived to see the light of
day again...
Its in better condition than the one I got, but I got mine for only 9 dollars!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-26-Keypunch-Punch-Card-/141603779673
It may be worth a couple of hundred to the right person, but I can't ever see
that thing selling anywhere close to that figure...
-Connor K
On 6/5/2015 8:38 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
This seems excessive, to say the least.
RARE-VINTAGE-IBM-26-INTERPRETING-CARD-PUNCH-OWN-A-PIECE-OF-HISTORY
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161725243156
but it's rare.
