Quote Originally Posted by tiosuper
Ah to carry the cases of punched card thorugh the campus of Loyola University of Chicago Lake Shore Campus and latter Kent State University in Ohio in the middle of Winter. ( Yes, I am old: I punched cards to enter data.)
Ah - Chicago - center of the punch card universe. lots of those machines there.

I got started in tech working on that stuff - everything from tube-type chassis keypunches to the biggest accounting machines with - get this - an electronic storage register using a sonic delay line. A big coil that got vibrated and the data "bits" moved along the length of the suspended coil. Weird!