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Virtual Punch Card Creator

Virtual Punch Card Creator

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·March 7, 2025

nils-m-holm

Here is a postscript file that generates punch card images: http://t3x.org/lfn/punchcard.eps

Context: http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html

masswerk

BTW: This is from 2012.

There's also a corresponding card reader to interpret these cards: https://www.masswerk.at/cardreader/

This was a spin-off of a now long defunct custom Google search interface. Compare (while Google closed their public search API in 2016, there are a few cached search results available; users of a certain age may also try "list games"): https://www.masswerk.at/google60/

masswerk

There's also a more advanced version that lets you experience the joys of punch-card programming with modern languages (JS, Perl, Python (mostly Python2)):

https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/

(Demo-stacks are available for download on the landing page.)

timonoko

Nothing fun about cards. I had my Fortran exercise in a backpack when I bicycled to to Finnish government computer centre. It was raining, so the cards turned little bit mushy and jammed the machine.

Sabotage and high treason, basically.

ChrisArchitect

Fun.

Related:

Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive

https://punchcards.tristandavey.com/