Computer Card Window Blinds/Shades

www.digg.com
www.theblogverse.com/2006/06/29/punch-ca rd-curtains/
www.boingboing.net/2006/06/28/punch_card _curtains.html
www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/co mputer_punch_card...


In some sense I'm using computer technology to both block out the sun and help me sleep in. With a box of old computer punch-cards, a used vertical blinds assembly, and some needle and thread I fashioned a device to help me in my ongoing battle against my bodies desire to wake-up.

We have where I work boxes upon boxes of these prehistoric paper punch-cards. I'm always looking for novel ideas to put them to good use again. Besides being good for blocking out the sun they also make good book marks and table leg stabilizer's.

Wikipedia has an article on the card's intended usage. I think the cards I used were 'saved' Fortran programs.
See: Punch-Cards


Doug Jones' Punch Card
history site (Collection shows examples of left, right, and no
corner cuts.)
Various
punched card codes
"The
Undead" - Wired magazine article about modern-day use of punch
cards
Scott
Fisher's Pennsylvania Turnpike Ticket, (IBM Punch card with square
holes) toll-ticket webpage 1970s
UNIVAC
Punch Card Gallery (Shows examples of both left and right corner
cuts.)
IBM Punch Card
Systems in the U.S. Army
Cardamation - a U.S. company
still supplying punch-card equipment and supplies as of 2006.

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items are from between 17 Apr 2006 & 22 Jun 2006.