[rescue] Fortran punch cards

[Kurt M. Nowak]

On 1/3/2012 6:28 PM, Derrik Walker wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Kurt M. Nowak wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> My father who is a retired physicist with severe dementia left us a collection of about 400lbs (~40 shoe boxes worth?) of Fortran 77 punch cards from the 70s neatly organized in a steel cabinet with 11 drawers. I am wondering if anyone would like them, or can advise what I should do with them - besides the obvious of taking them to the recycling center which I will probably end up doing at a last resort...I am located in San Diego, CA.
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> Are those punched cards with actual code on them?
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> If so, I wonder what it would take to get the contents off?  There might be something interesting on them.
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> - Derrik
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Yes, they all have code on them - they are high level mathematical 
functions. I can take photos of their descriptions if anyone is interested.

-Kurt