does any read punch cards anymore?

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jay West wrote:

> The documation readers are somewhat available nowdays, coming out of
> election use. I believe early HP's used the documation (never checked that
> myself). However, HP did actually produce a punch card reader, model 7261 or
> 7621 I seem to recall. I have one, and it's not terribly far down my "to be
> restored" list. I actually used this same unit in high school on the HP2000,
> so it WILL get restored someday. Many fond memories of this unit. Hope I
> have enough spare bits to make it run again!

I have one of these readers as well.  It's a 9869A Calculator Card Reader.
I also have another one with a different model (don't have it handy).  It
was one of the candidates I selected when I first set out to get a punched
card reader working.  Unfortunately, as with most HP equipment of this
era, the roller literally melted into a puddle of goo on the bottom of the
reader input hopper.

Does anyone know how fast these HP readers are supposed to be?

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