ebay - cardamatic

[John A. Dundas III]

At 5:20 PM -0600 2/14/05, Jay West wrote:
>The cardamatic discussion reminded me....
>
>I have a beautiful HP optical card reader I'm going to be restoring 
>at some point. It was used (in my high school anyways) to read BASIC 
>programs in to 2000/Access. The cards it used were standard optical 
>mark cards as far as the paper and size goes, but the preprinted 
>markings on the card were very specific to TSB. One checkbox to 
>select which basic statement, etc.

Did they look like the card about half way down this page?

<http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/collection/i-optical.html>

The EduSystems from DEC (PDP-8) supported a similar card.  See:

<http://dundas-mac.caltech.edu/~dundas/retro/cards.html>

>I have a carton of these cards, but was wondering if I should need 
>more - what's the best way to get more as I'm sure they aren't made 
>anymore. Take one to a printer and have them print that text on a 
>bunch of blanks?

I don't see why not.

John