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Ask HN: How to start programming with Punched Card

by DoryMinh on 12/13/21, 3:31 PM with 8 comments

• by barrettotte on 12/13/21, 6:57 PM

  I explored this a bit last year in a project for converting small snippets of RPG, COBOL, and FORTRAN to a punch card like format in https://github.com/barrettotte/punchit

  https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ is a good tool for getting the basics of the punch card encoding scheme.

  There's also a handful of people over at Hackaday that have made hardware for reading punch cards. Example: https://hackaday.com/2015/01/17/arduino-reads-punch-cards/

• by buescher on 12/13/21, 4:38 PM

  Have at it: http://x3270.bgp.nu/x026.html

• by steve_coral on 12/14/21, 6:47 AM

  Someone made an entire 3D IBM 1401 simulator. Punch cards. Flip switches. Scratch your head. Enjoy! https://rolffson.de/

  Hello World example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-COOnvYTuo

• by PaulHoule on 12/13/21, 3:34 PM

  http://www.hercules-390.eu/

• by kleer001 on 12/13/21, 5:57 PM

  Oh sweet Turing's apple why?

  Ha! In all seriousness, I'm curious (not judgmental). Academic? Just for fun? Lost a bet? A secret Santa gift?

• by eatonphil on 12/13/21, 3:53 PM

  I have been thinking about building such an environment. I'd also be curious if any exist.

• by justinhen21 on 12/13/21, 3:34 PM

  Not sure, How you are going to proceed with this.

• by leed25d on 12/13/21, 6:08 PM

  UNIVAC 1005 FTW