seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

Nigel Williams nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com
Fri Jan 18 11:17:35 CST 2019


> On 18 Jan 2019, at 6:02 am, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>   Does anyone in the Boston area know of a working 80-column
> punched-card reader?
>   I'm working with a researcher at Harvard who's come across some very
> interesting election polling data from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race,

Reminded me that at Harvard University, in the hallway below the impressive IBM ASCC (or Harvard Mark I)

https://i.imgur.com/ZQvs9J6.jpg

there is a unassuming display case with a DEC card-reader (and a DEC VK100 GiGi too) and a few other things:

https://i.imgur.com/0ENhw3H.jpg




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