OK, so I have the last IBM Type 77 collator plug board I wired with a card from one of the output bins from my last run in the EARLY 70s at Castle AFB in California. Anyone guess what that is worth (it is still wired)?
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Phil Smith <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 12:49 pm Subject: Re: PC2 - The New Punched Card Cloud Chip Davis wrote: Have you seen what they go for on eBay, Jim? >I've seen asking prices of north of $1/card (no idea if they actually got hat). Sometimes the value is in the pre-printing more than the card itself. omewhere I've got a small stash of "Triangle Universities Computation Center" ards with an early NC Research Triangle Park logo showing NCState, Duke, and NC on them. They date from the late sixties and ought to be worth at least a uck each. Probably still bookmarking some CS text in a box somewhere. >So, while I agree that they _are_ the best note cards ever (they fit so nicely n my geeky white dress shirt pocket, even with three pens in a pocket rotector) I've stopped using them for that. >I've got a couple of cartons in my attic. Let's see, at a buck a card, two housand cards per box, five (or is it six?) boxes per carton, "Hello, etirement fund!". >BTW, when folded in half twice, each quarter is almost exactly the size of a usiness/calling card. I would leave a blank one stuck in the door if I came by nd no one was home; everyone knew I had been there. I was talking to an old riend the other day, and she said she still has one in a scrapbook. I never ad printed business cards until the late-eighties when they finally got rid of he card punch. Yeah, you have to keep your eyes open. I got a box for something like $80, but I lso saw the ridiculous prices some folks were asking! …phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
