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 many for manual transcription, but too few for an industrial-strength solution. The cards are in a professionally-managed university archive, so it's not as easy as just throwing them in a shipping box and sending them off to who-knows-where to be read. Some of the cards are in binary format, so I'm fine with some ad-hoc Pythonic data massaging, if I can just get the bits read.
If anyone in the Boston area has a machine they might be able to make available, could you get in touch? That's fedor...@mit.edu Thanks! /guy fedorkow
