Welcome to VCFED Bill2550.
Have a look at this: https://hackaday.com/2012/07/30/reading-punch-cards-with-an-arduino-and-digital-camera/
How may cards are in the deck?
If not too many, you could possibly scan the cards onto a PC (one card as a single image file) and then someone could write a Python script to interpret each image and extract the contents. The registration of each card will be the key here.
I would be happy to have a go at the script (if it doesn't already do what you want) - and you could convert the cards at your leisure.
My Documation card reader was working as of a couple of weeks ago.If you feel like shipping them to Central PA, I can read them.I have one box of standard IBM punch cards that are not interpreted. I don’t need the cards but would like a copy of the contents. The file is a Fortran source file from 1976, so probably Fortran 4 or earlier. Can anyone help me?
You mean that you never learned to read the holes? At CDC SVLOPS, there was a fellow who was blind, brought his guide dog to work and read his program output by having it punched into cards. He was quite productive.Or multiple programs, each using a few hundred cards which is what the Fortran code I helped move off of punch cards consisted of. I am used to punch cards having the text of the card printed on them. That would make it easier to determine if there are multiple versions of the same program.
Hi Dave - thanks for the response. It's a standard long box of cards that is pretty full, so maybe 2000 cards.Welcome to VCFED Bill2550.
Have a look at this: https://hackaday.com/2012/07/30/reading-punch-cards-with-an-arduino-and-digital-camera/
How may cards are in the deck?
If not too many, you could possibly scan the cards onto a PC (one card as a single image file) and then someone could write a Python script to interpret each image and extract the contents. The registration of each card will be the key here.
I would be happy to have a go at the script (if it doesn't already do what you want) - and you could convert the cards at your leisure.
Dave
Thanks for your reply. This sounds pretty promising. I'm still working my way thru the responses.I could in a couple weeks. Stuff was working in 2019. I'm in MD.
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Wow, thanks for your reply. This sounds pretty good. It is a full box, so about 2000 cards. It is one Fortran code that was made in 1974-1976.My Documation card reader was working as of a couple of weeks ago.If you feel like shipping them to Central PA, I can read them.