[Gaffer]

There were also things called "magazines" printed on thinly sliced dead trees. These covered just about any topic you could imagine, so of course, there were some dedicated to computers.

Are you talking about punch cards like on an IBM 360 using the Hollerith code, or are you talking even older school like back in my telecom career with punch tapes and the Baudot code used in transmitter distributors for teletype operations?

[Red Badger]

No, he’s talking about MAGAZINES, like Computer Shopper and PC Magazine!..................

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Beware of the overpunch.

Every once in a while I still run into that for inbound data feeds. Try to explain that to some college rookie.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Octal lives!

[sparklite2]

Plus, we used paper tape with holes punched in it to run through readers. Sometimes, we used a little hand tool to punch holes manually. The tool was called a ‘chicken plucker.’