On 12/12/2015 11:06 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/12/2015 08:18 AM, tulsamike3...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> So did you have to learn how to read the punch hole cards also or did >> the punch hole cards go into the computer and than printed out the >> data on the fan fold paper also was it in code or just plane English? > You COULD read the holes, if you really HAD to. Keypunches printed > the alphanumeric form on the top edge of the cards. if you punched a > deck of cards on the CPU's card punch, there was no printing. If it > was an "object deck" ie. binary code, you would never "interpret" the > deck. But, if it had something that might be human readable, there > was a machine called an interpreter, and it would type the symbols on > the top of the card for you. > > Jon > Thank you Jon that makes more sense!
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