Considering you just can’t go down to Fry’s and buy an IBM 80-column punch card reader, we’re loving [digitatrails]’ clever way of getting data off an otherwise unreadable storage medium.

Before the Commodore 64, the IBM PC, and even the Apple I, most computers took input data from a type of non-magnetic storage medium that is rarely used today: the punched card. These pieces of ...

You'll be relieved to gear that IBM/360 Column Binary Format is ... Scan and parse a card-image at The Virtual Card Reader! New: Batch punch, read and process cards using the Virtual Card Read ...