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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:29:25 -0700
Reply-To: les@cs.stanford.edu
Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Les Earnest <les@STEAM.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Re: card readers
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Mike Williams writes:
I have had a request from the Smithsonian. They have data (on cards) for about 4,000 elephants and they can't find a way of getting it into a computer. Does anyone know of a functional card reader in an organization that might be willing to try and read the cards and put them on a computer file?
IBM cards are still widely used in voting based on the use of a stylus to punch selections in perforated cards. There must be punched card readers wherever this scheme is used, for example in Santa Clara County, California (a.k.a. "Silicon Valley").
-Les Earnest
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Reply-To: les@cs.stanford.edu
Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Les Earnest <les@STEAM.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Re: card readers
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980407164053.0071b754@pop.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
(williams@CPSC.UCALGARY.CA)
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Mike Williams writes:
I have had a request from the Smithsonian. They have data (on cards) for about 4,000 elephants and they can't find a way of getting it into a computer. Does anyone know of a functional card reader in an organization that might be willing to try and read the cards and put them on a computer file?
IBM cards are still widely used in voting based on the use of a stylus to punch selections in perforated cards. There must be punched card readers wherever this scheme is used, for example in Santa Clara County, California (a.k.a. "Silicon Valley").
-Les Earnest
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