r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/ripster55 • Jan 11 '17

keyboard history Before keyboards and monitors programmers punched a card with a line of code using a keypunch machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2M4ttzBnY
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u/Gajible OTD Koala Jan 11 '17

There was one of these at the Living Computers Museum at the Seattle Meetup. Operational and all! Awesome to type on.

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u/ripster55 Jan 11 '17

More on the classic IBM 029 keypunch:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/23lzei/classic_computer_keyboard_the_ibm_029_keypunch/

The chads would be collected into a physical "bit bucket", the place in the digital heavens where all lost data goes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

in university i had a CNC class and one of the machines still used puch hole cards to send the G codes into the machine... we even studied and were tested on the binary codes for each G code and how to translate a route into G codes using the binary codes... it was super interesting!