On 12/23/24 07:16, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
I thought the whole idea of the middle pocket on the 2540 was to allow a master
deck to be read in and fed to the middle pocket. A total card in the deck could
be selected into read pocket 1 and a new total card punched and fed to the
middle pocket merging it into the master deck in the right place.
A fun reader was the 2501. The card read in 9 edge first then changed direction
and passed by the light based reader column 1 first and then shot up into the
stacker. The card was stopped by 2 fingers hanging down. Tape the fingers up
out of the way, run a program that read cards and you could have a game of 2000
card pickup in 2 minutes. Cleanup was a pain. 😊
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2501
Someone on this list or on one of the Facebook groups had one in Europe
which he was going to attach to something like a PC or such. He had it
up and running and reading cards, but haven't seen any other mention since.
Also someone sold one of the weights which were distinctive on epay some
years ago.
thanks
Jim
