Paper is the future.

[IronWing]

Punchcards were still in use during DOS 5.0?

Kodak wasn't about to trust those crappy floppies they used to make.

 

[sdifox]

Punchcards were still in use during DOS 5.0?

These were used in terminals for chemical mixers, basically the recipe for mixing chemicals. The recipe is read from punched cards and displayed and the chemist follows the instructions displayed.

There is a lot of innertia in industrial applications.

 

[MtnMan]

Trump should hone up on life with only paperwork. They don't have much technology for inmates in federal correctional institutions.

 

[MtnMan]

I'm old enough to remember when floppy disks really WERE floppy! (8 1/2")

1200 bps modem and a shell account that linked you to a UNIX prompt. For 5.95 a month

Ok youngster. I maintained 80 Col card punches, readers, and sorters. Also, 96 column punches and readers, and 8 channel paper tape punches and readers. That's how data was input into programs running on mainframes of the era.

 

[Amol S.]

Punchcards were still in use during DOS 5.0?

My elementry school that I attended for KG-6 grade (mid 2001 - mid 2008) still used punch cards when I attended there, in the main office.

ADSL is still used even to this day.

 

[Viper1j]

Ok youngster. I maintained 80 Col card punches, readers, and sorters. Also, 96 column punches and readers, and 8 channel paper tape punches and readers. That's how data was input into programs running on mainframes of the era.

Load "Super Mario",8,1

C=64

 

[sdifox]

My elementry school that I attended for KG-6 grade (mid 2001 - mid 2008) still used punch cards when I attended there, in the main office.

ADSL is still used even to this day.

If you are talking about the ones you fill out multiple choice answers, those are bubble cards, not punched cards.

 

[Amol S.]

If you are talking about the ones you fill out multiple choice answers, those are bubble cards, not punched cards.

No, I used to see the staff put a card inside of a clock, which would cause a very large click sound.

 

[Meghan54]

No, I used to see the staff put a card inside of a clock, which would cause a very large click sound.

So, you don’t know what punch cards were, eh? Why not be honest about that instead of this nonsense?

 

[sdifox]

No, I used to see the staff put a card inside of a clock, which would cause a very large click sound.

That is just a time card... It stamps your arrival time and departure time. Punching the clock.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

No, I used to see the staff put a card inside of a clock, which would cause a very large click sound.

Fuck to be so young you haven’t seen a time clock.

 

[nakedfrog]

Punch cards were still in use at Kodak in the early 90s. I was working on a project to replace that. The only reason for replacement was because they could no longer source the punch card read heads...

The only place I've seen machines/cards for those was the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Pretty neat place.

 

[Amol S.]

That is just a time card... It stamps your arrival time and departure time. Punching the time.

But wasn't the punch card the manual version of the time card, without using the clock for punching?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

But wasn't the punch card the manual version of the time card, without using the clock for punching?

you are confusing two separate but similar things.
Punch cards for computers were instructions for what the computer needed to do. Holes in the cards basically were 1’s and 0’s. Think of a computer punch card like a floppy disk or CD or DVD the card was the instructions for the machine.
Time clocks were just that, a clock with a spring or lever activated stamp or sometimes a cutting thing to mark the time on a paper card. End of the week the boss would round them up and total your hours for payroll. The boss could also see if you missed “punches” which typically meant you were late and trying to conceal it

 

[sdifox]

But wasn't the punch card the manual version of the time card, without using the clock for punching?

Nein... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

 

[ultimatebob]

One thing for that's for sure is that something critical like a pipeline control system should be on a private network that is airgapped from any Internet connected systems.

The fact that hackers were able to shut it down with a ransomware attack means that the company is failing at even basic IT security guidelines.

 

[Viper1j]

But wasn't the punch card the manual version of the time card, without using the clock for punching?

Computer punch card.


Work time card

 

[hal2kilo]

Kodak wasn't about to trust those crappy floppies they used to make.
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Psft. One ground floor of company first us of 8 inch Shugart single sided 128k dual drive floppy drive to support a hyphenation dictionary for a glorified word processor (Alphatype Corp.).