We found an old 80-column punched card - a relic from the time my wife
was a programmer on IBM 360 mainframes.
The data on this card is object code from an assembler, apparently.
That's a 1GB memory stick for comparison.
There's a more recently posted alternative picture here, along with a
rant about data security:
www.flickr.com/photos/ian-s/2785762687/
and I have a shot of the punched card on its own if anyone needs one.
Laserone ☆ Lauren, mihailo.genije, and 30 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Laserone ☆ Lauren 67 months ago | reply
What a fantastic photo! :)
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Ian-S 67 months ago | reply
Thank you laserone!
I hope 2008 is good to you (and Riley!)
:)
ivyknoll 64 months ago | reply
Gosh - it's hard to recall the days when computing involved punch cards -- it was all so slow back then.
cgt 56 months ago | reply
That picture represents the last 30 years of my professional life. Thanks for the memories ! The first mainframe I worked on had 128k - the storage cabinet was about the size of a large wardrobe.
Ian-S 56 months ago | reply
Thank you ivyknoll and cgt.
pepperstory 47 months ago | reply
I used it in www.himili.com/blog/downloads/drive-immunizer/ thank you for cc-ying it.
Ian-S 47 months ago | reply
Hi pepperstory - thank you for letting me know about your use of this image, and thank you too for the correct acknowledgement.
ChrisChampion 46 months ago | reply
This is a great photo. I'm using it to illustrate the word "deprecated" on the bulletin board in my computer science classroom. Thanks for licensing it CC.
Ian-S 46 months ago | reply
Thank you Chris. It's good to hear about how my picture is being used.
From time to time I get misgivings about CC licensing, when someone pushes the boundaries too far, but comments like yours encourage me to stick with it.
tonemcd 46 months ago | reply
That's an excellent photo - I came across it embedded (with attribution of course, otherwise how did I get here? ;) in a django presentation on data migration.
Ian-S 46 months ago | reply
Thank you Tony, and it's good to know that the attribution rules are being followed.
If you're involved with a data migration project, I hope it goes well. Problems with data quality sometimes start to loom large when it's migrated.
IanAnthonySmith 36 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Robots, Automatons, Mainframes and the Silicon Revolution, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
mwclarkson 21 months ago | reply
I'm currently (and for the forseeable future) using this on my ICT & Computer Studies based resources site (where all resources are, naturally, released under a CC license) - mukoku.vl3.co.uk. Thanks for sharing!
Ian-S 21 months ago | reply
(Some good stuff on Mike's site!)
i_tango2004 17 months ago | reply
Awesome transposition... I used to punch baudot code holes into tape, that then ran through a tape transmitter, to send the signals to printers in other cities.., on the RR.
Ah how I long for the good old days... Cause they were... :)