[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/7/22 17:10, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > Then of course some card devices feed the narrow edge (1 column) first rather > than the top or bottom row. CDC had a reader that worked column-wise and a > punch that worked row-wise, so the interface logic for the punch needed a > transpose o

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 7, 2022, at 6:22 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > ... > On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> Didn't know that one. I do know: >> >> He died at the console >> of hunger and thirst >> next day he was buried >> face down, nine edge first > > Well, I am definitely not the first o

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge hanging out the front in contravention of the instruction label! :) Apparently AMP didn't know the "face down nine edge first" song...

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 13:50 -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: >  > I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. > Marked: >  > AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. > > Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge hanging out > the > front in contravention of the instr

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 7, 2022, at 2:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >> > I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: >> > AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: >> Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
> I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: > AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge hanging out the front in contravention of the instruction label! :) Apparently

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
That is for configuring the initial setup for a gizmo tester (semiconductor, cable, subassembly, etc.). -- Will On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:39 PM Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: AMP > Incorporated - SYSCOM Di

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I don't know that as a song, but it's one of the final lines of the > poem "The Last Bug". "Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it." De

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 7, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk > wrote: > >> I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: >> AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. > > Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge hanging out the > front in contravention of the instruct

[cctalk] Re: AMP Punched Card Reader

2022-10-07 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I was curious if anyone recognizes this punched card reader. Marked: > AMP Incorporated - SYSCOM Division. Can't help with the identity, but I'm loving the 9 edge hanging out the front in contravention of the instruction label! :) Apparently AMP didn't know the "face down nine edge first" son