A timeline of IBM keyboard history

chasil · 2025-03-30T02:26:07 1743301567

I used an IBM keypunch machine in ~1985 to write COBOL programs in high school. We would wrap our completed deck of cards in a rubber band and drop the deck in a cardboard box. We would get the deck back with greenbar output the next day.

I don't see keypunch machines here.

Edit: The 029 looks familiar, but it's been a lot of years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch

I also regularly use a Model M when I tether my laptop.

This is also missing the Selectric typewriters. I used a Datamaster with an accounting package a couple years after high school.

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