Re: seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

2019-01-18 Thread Nigel Williams via cctalk
> On 18 Jan 2019, at 6:02 am, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk > wrote: > Does anyone in the Boston area know of a working 80-column > punched-card reader? > I'm working with a researcher at Harvard who's come across some very > interesting election polling data from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race, Re

Re: seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

2019-01-17 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
I'm in Arlington (once called West Cambridge) and have an HP 6270A (table top reader w/ RS232 interface) sitting on the floor next to me. The feed roller had disolved into a puddle of goo, which I cleaned up/out and was able to send some cards thru, and see output on the serial port. I've never re

seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

2019-01-17 Thread Guy Fedorkow via cctalk
Greetings CCtalk,   Does anyone in the Boston area know of a working 80-column punched-card reader?   I'm working with a researcher at Harvard who's come across some very interesting election polling data from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race, punched onto about 10,000 cards (five boxes).  That's too ma