[rescue] Fortran punch cards

[Derrik Walker]

On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Kurt M. Nowak wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 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.



Are those punched cards with actual code on them?

If so, I wonder what it would take to get the contents off?  There might be something interesting on them.

- Derrik