Remember when punch cards were the new technology?

[Whoa_Nelly]

This was how I matriculated :evilgrin:

[qnr]

1. I've used them, but they weren't "new technology" n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Back in the late 50s-early 60s it was a HUGH!!!1! deal to use these

to enroll students from grade school on up.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Whoa_Nelly!

You didn't!

Naughty girl! :spank:


J/K! I know what matriculated means! And yes, I do also remember punch cards!

Whew......that was a million years ago, wasn't it?

Seems like it.......:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. I admit it...have matriculated many times

:rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Yes indeed. That's what all my college class registrations

looked like. :P Some students would pay big bucks for a card for a closed-out class. :rofl: Damn, that was a long time ago....

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Do Not Bend, SPINDLE or Fold

That's what I always remember seeing printed on those.

As a little kid, for SPINDLE all I could think of was the spindle Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on that made her fall into a deep sleep. Made me wonder how I could spindle it when most people didn't have spinning wheels around :rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. ROFL!

Yep, "spindle" was one of those weird words... :rofl: I heard the word "spinster" when I was a kid and thought it was the same as "spindle"...

[kedrys]

7. Oh Bog I'm old.

My programming classes exercises in college were output on those.

Yikes.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Hollerith cards - credit where it's due.

In 1881, Herman Hollerith began designing a machine to tabulate census data more efficiently than by traditional hand methods. The U.S. Census Bureau had taken eight years to complete the 1880 census, and it was feared that the 1890 census would take even longer. Herman Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyze the 1890 US census data. Herman Hollerith's great breakthrough was his use of electricity to read, count, and sort punched cards whose holes represented data gathered by the census-takers. His machines were used for the 1890 census and accomplished in one year what would have taken nearly ten years of hand tabulating. In 1896, Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention, the Company became part of IBM in 1924.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhollerith.htm

And before him:

The Jacquard system was developed in France in 1804-05 by Joseph-Marie Jacquard, improving on the original punched-card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745. The punched cards controlled the actions of the loom, allowing automatic production of intricate woven patterns. The punched-card idea was adopted later by Charles Babbage about 1830 to control his Analytical Engine, and later by Herman Hollerith for tabulating the 1890 USA census.



http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/jacquard.html

[BrotherBuzz]

10. And some credit should go to James Burke for pulling all together...

and letting us make to connections


Remember James Burke's series 'Connections' and the episode where he showed all the inventions or innovations that led to the computer? He actually started with the waterwheel that led to the power loom, then Jacquard's card invention, then touching on Hollerith's tabulation cards innovation, and forward. It seems like yesterday, but that episode aired back in 1979!

[KT2000]

11. Oh Yes !!

For my 1983 Tacky Party - first prize was a gorgeous Christmas wreath made out of punch cards.

All you have to do is fold corners of the card on one of the short sides to the center. Staple in place and then spray paint green. Add glitter.
Fabulous. Amazing that Martha doesn't make these.

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. You got that out of a Reader's Digest

Home Crafts Book!

It's right up there with making the Reader's Digest spray painted folded page Christmas Tree! :rofl:

[smtpgirl]

12. I learned how to make punch cards in high school

there was an IBM machine, you had to program the card to output the information you wanted, place the card on a spool and that machine would punch all of your data, whether bad or good, all in the programming.

Data Processing 1977 I was a junior

PEOPLE, WE ARE DATING OURSELVES!!

I took a summer job that year too, working on a switchboard. That is when you had to place those big cumberssome rca like wires and patch them to a panel to connect a call

[qnr]

14. "It's not the volts that'll kill you, it's the amps."

Sorry, reliving some military communications memories :)

[Critters2]

15. How we matriculated, too

Go to the ballroom in the student union. Get one card from each class you want to take, then take all of 'em to the registration table. It was the height of high tech at the time, and ll very mysterious to thoe of us non-computer science majors.

You could make nice Christmas wreaths out of 'em, too!

[mykpart]

16. Oh yeah! And the companies who used them

used to recruit keypunch typists who were hearing impaired, because the damn keypunch machines were so noisy! At one time in Texas much of the state business was keypunched by female convicts!