Re: New meets old

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Sujet : Re: New meets old
De : seaohveh (at) *nospam* hoffmanlabs.invalid (Stephen Hoffman)
Groupes : comp.os.vms
Date : 18. Jun 2025, 00:28:11
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On 2025-06-17 18:07:57 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

The fact VMS supported punched card devices always amuses me as it clearly shows VMS with one foot in a long-obsolete era and the other foot in a more modern era.
 Did punched card support ever make it to Alpha ?
 BTW, did VMS ever have paper tape reader (and/or writer) support ?
Punched cards are an antecedent to RMS records, both directly, and via inheritances from RSX-11M, FORTRAN, COBOL, and ilk.
The punched card driver was not ported to OpenVMS Alpha, though a few related artifacts do survive within OpenVMS itself.
Page 2-1: https://ia902902.us.archive.org/3/items/stx_AA-Z600C-TE_VMS_4.4_VAX_VMS_I_O_Users_Reference_Manual_Part_I_Apr86/AA-Z600C-TE_VMS_4.4_VAX_VMS_I_O_Users_Reference_Manual_Part_I_Apr86.pdf CR11: https://www.vaxbarn.com/downloads/pub/pdf/dec/unibus/DEC-11-HCRMA-C-D_CR11_CM11_Card_Reader_System_Manual_Jan1974____copy.pdf I'm not familiar with any formal support for paper tape readers within VAX/VMS, but have met a few hooked to various ancient systems via serial lines or such, and all manner of communications controllers were once supported.
Punched cards and paper tape were fading into the 1980s, though a few examples undoubtedly survive and there are undoubtedly examples still in production somewhere because reasons.
https://maker.pro/pic/projects/diy-punch-card-reader-using-pic-microntroller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM1h-vrKbRg
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Date Sujet#  Auteur
16 Jun 25 * New meets old18Arne Vajhøj
17 Jun 25 `* Re: New meets old17Lawrence D'Oliveiro
17 Jun 25  `* Re: New meets old16Arne Vajhøj
17 Jun 25   +- Re: New meets old1Arne Vajhøj
17 Jun 25   `* Re: New meets old14Simon Clubley
17 Jun 25    +* Re: New meets old2Arne Vajhøj
1 Jul 25    i`- Re: New meets old1chrisq
17 Jun 25    +* Re: New meets old7jeffrey_dsi
19 Jun 25    i`* Re: New meets old6Simon Clubley
19 Jun 25    i `* Re: New meets old5Robert A. Brooks
19 Jun 25    i  +* Re: New meets old3Lawrence D'Oliveiro
20 Jun 25    i  i`* Re: New meets old2Robert A. Brooks
20 Jun 25    i  i `- Re: New meets old1abrsvc
2 Jul 25    i  `- Re: New meets old1Norbert Schönartz
17 Jun 25    +- Re: New meets old1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
18 Jun 25    `* Re: New meets old3Stephen Hoffman
18 Jun 25     +- Re: New meets old1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
18 Jun 25     `- Re: New meets old1bill

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