Basic Operation of the IBM 029 Card Punch (1967)

[@donahue7]

Professor Galler taught me programming at Michigan and changed my career path. In Fall 1967, I took his class CS 473 and just loved it. He was a wonderful teacher and convinced me that I'd much rather be a computer scientist than a lawyer. :-) Many years later, I had a chance to meet up with him again when he ran the NSFNet project -- he even then knew I got an A in his class! A truly great man ...

[@azrulmuhamed7222]

Is he still alive if I may I ask..

[@donahue7]

@@azrulmuhamed7222 unfortunately Professor Galler died many years ago. But I was able to tell the story to his daughter recently.

[@lepinjalmao]

@@azrulmuhamed7222 no

[@DeniseLegg-nf8gr]

Worked on these from late 60's to mide 80's. I also still have 2 or 3 boxes of the blank punch cards, and I'm still using them for shopping lists to this day 😀

[@austinderico4665]

Thank you for preserving this history. I work at a technology history museum in Atlanta, and this is helping further a lot of our research and information to hand out to volunteers still operating this exact model 56 years after this video was produced

[@elye3701]

I used to "fix" these machines as well as the 059 verifier. The technology is impressive. There is nothing like loading a deck of cards to read in a program. C will be a waste of cards. I still dream of punching paper tape with a bus ticket punch and operating a calculator with it. Back in college I derived several sequences to obtain trig/log/exponential/square roots/cube roots from an 8-digit calculator that only has one memory register. I employed nested parenthetical forms of the Taylor or was it MacLaurin expansion. BTW I sucked at repairing those machines. I have the card gauge and maybe a service manual somewhere.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

The IBM 029 Card Punch[er] was the second card punch machine I used since 1973. Another punch card machine I used was the IBM 059, card verifier. The first ones I worked with were the 024 (card verifier) and the 026 (card punch) in 1972 at my first job. There was where Jerry Lewis taught me how to keypunch cards. The last card punch I used was the IBM 129 Card Data Recorder in 1978. My typewriting skill, which today is my keyboarding skill, made using different computer-dedicated machines a cinch.

[@tschak909]

It was officially referred to as the 29? I always knew it referred to with the leading zero... hm.

[@ropersonline]

This video's aspect ratio is wrong. Go to stretchsite and press the 4:3 -> 16:9 button to watch it properly.

[@gwenelbro3719]

Yes, I remember these machines well, and also the ICL ones, which I first went on. Happy Days! How I wish I were there today. Great bunch of girls I worked with. This was in Wadham Stringer, Portsmouth England. We also used hand punches when there was a power cut. That was tedious, but the hand verifier was electric and easier.

[@virginiastock5518]

I worked on these machines in the 60's and 70's.

[@softndark]

I even remember the chair.... with that hard seat of dark green. smiles

[@tornadex]

I'm ready to work!

[@workingTchr]

The dude's glasses are totally in fashion!

[@subramaniantr2091]

where is the feed button? I couldn't find.

[@XalphYT]

7:34 You way want to skip the tedious setup and go directly here.

[@northof-62]

Cool chair.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

You typed a pageful!🙂

[@martincosta790]

1:44 Puedes abrir hasta siete ventanas simultáneas..a no! son tarjetas! 😂