well, it's a Quiz game but nevertheless, I finally found a game on punch card.
front and back shown here:
my first PC game on a punch card
well, it's a Quiz game but nevertheless, I finally found a game on punch card.
front and back shown here:
That's not technically for a PC, is it? It looks more like it's for some rather cheap kiddie toy.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
Well, yes, not for PC but for older IBM computers. Punch cards were like floppies of old, hell, we still used punch card in the US Army during the 80s.
That's pretty cool, tom! I didn't know they made anything like that for consumer use. Of course, looking at the language it isn't from the Americas, so maybe they never had anything like that over here.
You're right about the military, also. When my dad was in the military in the late 60s, he said that the computers used punch cards.
Either way, it is still a cool find!
Um, dude? Maybe I'm getting a bad idea from the photograph, but it looks like there's a grand total of 21 holes punched in that card, and there's a whole lot of human-readable information there.Originally Posted by tom
Combined with the "Computer Quiz" header, I really, really doubt this was a card for some ancient IBM mainframe. Do a Google image search for punch cards; there's really nothing that looks like this.
I'm pretty sure I had a toy very much like this when I was a boy. You would put different cards on it and answer multiple-choice questions by probing the holes in the card with electrical leads. (Yes, that means the correct answers were in the same position every time and eventually you could get the right answers just by knowing where to put the leads. It was amusing at the time.)
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
I'm sorry to say, but I have to agree with Jorpho. A punch card would have different patterns of punched holes to represent different bytecodes. The multiple choice quiz device does sound like the most likely candidate.
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Doesn't matter, it still says IBM Deutschland on the left side...
actually I think this punch card was for the port-a-punch from IBM.
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