I believe when I was at P&H Mining, our card reader/punch was finally disconnected when we moved the datacenter in 1994. I don't think it was used much the last few years.
I can remember during probably the late 80's, having a problem with the card punch. After about 3 or 4 days with the punch being down, the factory was starting to run out of work. They couldn't punch out picking tickets for parts or labor tickets. We had a 3rd party vendor servicing the punch, and they had to pay IBM to come in and finally fix it. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer ---- Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote: > Wondering when the last card reader died. We had one at University of > Waterloo until 1984 or 1985; we had a full professor who insisted on using > cards. We finally told him he'd have to pay the maintenance-that convinced > him (or, more likely, his Dean) that it was time to use terminals. > > What's the latest anyone remembers using a card reader? > > BTW, http://www.cardamation.com/punchcardmedia.html claims to still sell > them, if you need an 80-byte fix! > -- > ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
