Re: IBM card falls out from back of dash -1970 Cuda
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Re: IBM card falls out from back of dash -1970 Cuda
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Sure looks like it was something being phased out. In college learning fortran and cobal those cards were common. Hard telling what it was used for by chrysler. Intended purpose for this card was payroll. Look at the third image at the bottom right. Looks like revision date of 11-64. Plus it says Hours Data Card Salary in the same image to the left. FORTRAN and COBOL, took those classes back in 70-72, along with RPG. Long time ago.
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Re: IBM card falls out from back of dash -1970 Cuda
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Hey 5carguy, thanks for the pictures! Now I realize that the black line on the back of my card is actually a "1". Plus, your card with the "1-3" is also a payroll/time card!
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Re: IBM card falls out from back of dash -1970 Cuda
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This, a WAG, the 1/3 and 6Pac was in the car to make sure the car gor special notice.Guessing - in the morning there would be a meeting and workers were told of any special cars to watch for, the cards identified them. I'm guessing 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 were placed with 3 corresponding 6 Pac cars built that day by the line.
The cards were called punch cards. I can imagine one would have to have the program chrysler used to actually "run the program". Back in the day (until mid 70's) the cards were punched and a stack was run through a machine that performed computations. The card you have, WAG, seems to perhaps include coding that output broadcast sheets, or, I wonder if dealers had "readers" which the glove box card could be run to get a list of part numbers for anything used on the car?
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