[hercules-390] o.t. virtual card punch

[Mike Stramba [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

For those of us who actually used a card punch ...

Here's a virtual one:
http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

Very clever, and for once something "useful" in javascript ;/
(As opposed to the massive bloated "survey" junk now on IBM's sites)

For me, it was college, ~1978 a . Cobol "Hello World" program, that I
vaguely remember was "lots" (~30+ ??) cards !

Mike

[Gerhard Postpischil [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

Post by Mike Stramba ***@gmail.com [hercules-390]
For those of us who actually used a card punch ...
http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

That brings back memories. I made modifications to the OS/360 writer
program, and one of the changes was to punch one binary card with the
job name (9*12 array) as a separator. But I never got a chance to add it
to HASP.


Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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[Carey Tyler Schug [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

when I was an operator on DOS 360/30  machines, with production running
in 24K BG and F1 partitions, the F2 was on rare occasions used to print
a spooled tape out put from a 7010 without a printer but usually vacant.

So I wrote a program I could run that would be a virtual keypunch,
putting the cards in the middle pocket...and modified bits in storage 
manually to assign the punch to F2 even if it was actually being used by
another partition too.  So that was a "virtual" keypunch in a way.  I
then had to run them through an interpreting O29 to get the printing on
them.

--Carey

Post by Gerhard Postpischil ***@charter.net [hercules-390]

Post by Mike Stramba ***@gmail.com [hercules-390]
For those of us who actually used a card punch ...
http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

That brings back memories. I made modifications to the OS/360 writer
program, and one of the changes was to punch one binary card with the
job name (9*12 array) as a separator. But I never got a chance to add it
to HASP.

[[e-mail] [hercules-390]]

http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way.

Note that you can use your own keyboard to
type characters.

BFN. Paul.

[Joe Monk [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

"Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way."

Think about this ... object code used to be a *deck* of punched cards! Now
you know why object code is called an *object deck* and why it is always
F80 in LRECL and RECFM.

Joe

Post by ***@yahoo.com.au [hercules-390]

http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way.
Note that you can use your own keyboard to
type characters.
BFN. Paul.

[Stan Saraczewski [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

Brings to mind the practical joke that an other operator and I perpetrated that was NOT appreciated back in the mid seventies on a 360/50 running DOS 26.2 - the TP Monitor was in a 'mini tray' - composed of several object decks all link edited together and stored on DASD... each composite deck marked across the top with program name and date.
We found a similar tray and filled it with scrap cards and reported that the tray containing the TP Monitor had fallen and the cards were all scattered... there were of course no names or dates present...
Ha.



On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 4:02:48 AM PST, Joe Monk ***@gmail.com [hercules-390] <hercules-***@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

"Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way."
Think about this .... object code used to be a *deck* of punched cards! Now you know why object code is called an *object deck* and why it is always F80 in LRECL and RECFM.

Joe
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:45 PM, ***@yahoo.com.au [hercules-390] <hercules-***@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

http://www.masswerk.at/ keypunch/ http://www.masswerk.at/ keypunch/

Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way.

Note that you can use your own keyboard to
type characters.

BFN. Paul.

[Gerhard Postpischil [e-mail] [hercules-390]]

Post by ***@yahoo.com.au [hercules-390]
Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way.

If you look at any reference card from the era (360, 370,...) there is a
column listing the punches for all 256 characters!

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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Post by Gerhard Postpischil ***@charter.net [hercules-390]

Post by ***@yahoo.com.au [hercules-390]
Thanks! Now I at least know how uppercase
and numbers are represented, which goes a
long way.

If you look at any reference card from the era (360, 370,...) there is a
column listing the punches for all 256 characters!

Great! I see it now on the S/370 Reference Card.

BFN. Paul.

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