It is interesting to note that many of the Large Aerospace businesses still in existence in Southern California have "Surplus" warehouses where they keep this stuff. i.e. Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed/Martin, Rockwell, Mickey D's (Douglas not Donald's). I once dragged out an old Series III out of one of these warehouses and fired it up as a political gesture. Because we couldn't get CPU time allocated on some Series 70s at the time. Once the MIS department that owned the 70s got wind of it YOU BET WE GOT CPU ALLOCATED! [I didn't even have a operating system for it. But the octal lights lit up and the three 7920 disc drives made a lot of noise when the departmental managers showed up. We used a (micro) Series 37 loaned from an HP Sales Rep underneath someone's desk to drive a terminal, to make it appear we had a console.] Hughes in particular would drag this stuff out periodically and sell it to employes at rock bottom prices. (i.e. terminals for ten bucks). ---------- From: owner-hp3000-l To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L Subject: Card Readers [Punched, not credit!] Date: Friday, September 27, 1996 12:38AM I'm almost too embarrassed to ask, but I have a cousin who has 70,000 punched cards that he would love to be able to transfer to a medium that still exists on the planet. Does anyone know of a card reader still in existence that might be available to transfer this stuff to something else (except maybe paper tape or 7-track magnetic tape)? Since I'm wishing anyway, I'll add that the closer to Southern California, the better. Please, no laugher, no flames...it's for family... /Steve [log in to unmask]