my first PC game on a punch card

[Jorpho]

The first two Google hits for <"port-a-punch"> look nothing like that. If it says "IBM Deutschland" on the left side, then that suggests IBM made these multiple-choice quiz device doohickeys.

...On second thought, I'll grant you that it's not impossible this was used with the Port-A-Punch, but if it was, it was used to record the results to these seven questions and certainly not for any kind of "game".

[jb143]

The first two Google hits for <"port-a-punch"> look nothing like that. If it says "IBM Deutschland" on the left side, then that suggests IBM made these multiple-choice quiz device doohickeys.

...On second thought, I'll grant you that it's not impossible this was used with the Port-A-Punch, but if it was, it was used to record the results to these seven questions and certainly not for any kind of "game".

That could be. From the picture though, it looks like all the holes were punched...which could just mean someone puchned them all for the heck of it. Like the bored kids who fill in all the circles on those standardized tests.

Also, Jorpho, is this one of the things you remember?
http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/...r-know-it-all/

[Edit]
And here's an interesting tidbit about IBM's history. The founder of the company that later became IBM created a machine for the 1890 census to speed up data tabulation. It was an electro-mechanical machine and was the first machine to use punched cards to process data.