Chads

I think the State of Florida might have a lead on some chads... ;-)

Guy

You could try Florida in a few months time :-) They seem to specialise in pregnant ones.

But, seriously, I tried to find some for buildings but couldn't and finished up making them from old business cards, cutting the card into strips with the width the length of the chads (or bricks) and the guillotining them to the height of the chads.

You need to be pretty keen to do this :-)

Jim.

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At the Sunderland MRS

Duncan

And I always thought "a Chad" was something else :-)

Cross Cut Paper Shredder.

Donald

Maybe you can try to find a company still using microfiches for old 'handmade' technical drawings (as ABB Germany does a few years ago). These little pieces of film are usually mounted on a card similar to the computer ones, and often are punched as these.

Try an ad. in MicroMart - free,

Ken.

"Rob" wrote

And I always thought "a Chad" was something else :-)

"CHAD" is our local newspaper in Mansfield and Ashfield.... The CHronical ADvertiser...

Andy

You'll have to translate that to local currency.

In message , Dave Curtis writes

At the current rate of exchange for computer equipment, that would be GBP 50 then.

Round these parts chads is Cheadle Hulme Amateur Dramatics Society

You're overlooking the ingenuity of UK home mechanics/model engineers :)

Tonight's rates $1.79 something to the £, soon be 2.0 ( even more :) )

Ken.

Or so Apple Mac would have us believe.

Ken.

I believe the computer museum at Bletchley Park has a card punch. Maybe they could help you out if you offered an appropriate donation.

I doubt if you'll find a card punch in regular use nowadays.

Simon.

I can remember whole rooms of them clattering away, with background music (at quite a high volume) to relieve the monotony. To enter data in a repetitive format, you would punch a template card and mount it on a small drum. You could also program the computer (e.g. IBM 7094) to produce punched card output, at several thousand cards per minute.

In message , Simon Harding writes

Apparently, you used to be able to get a hand card punch, for making corrections to cards that had been wrongly punched, or for punching single cards to add to a deck or as replacements. Maybe one of those would be cheaper (but not necessarily easier to obtain).

At one place where I worked, the card punch was just another output class. I've still got the couple of hundred wonderful bookmarks that turned up one day when someone accidentally keyed "SYSOUT=C" instead of "SYSOUT=X".

I know that expression, just can't remember whether it's a Honeywell (Bull), or an ICL code.

David

Neither. It's IBM.