[00:01] *** Stilett0- has quit IRC (Read error: Operation timed out) [03:36] *** VADemon has quit IRC (Quit: left4dead) [04:00] *** kyounko has joined #internetarchive [05:46] *** zhongfu_ has joined #internetarchive [05:46] *** zhongfu has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [06:22] *** Stiletto has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [06:30] *** kyounko has quit IRC (KVIrc 4.2.0 Equilibrium http://www.kvirc.net/) [06:50] *** Stilett0- has joined #internetarchive [08:33] *** kyan has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) [09:34] *** atomotic has joined #internetarchive [12:15] *** atomotic has quit IRC (Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…) [12:16] *** atomotic has joined #internetarchive [12:35] *** atomotic has quit IRC (Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…) [12:41] *** atomotic has joined #internetarchive [13:15] *** atomotic has quit IRC (Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…) [14:09] *** atomotic has joined #internetarchive [15:43] *** kyan has joined #internetarchive [16:36] *** X-Scale has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [17:00] *** X-Scale has joined #internetarchive [17:00] *** Dahnak has joined #internetarchive [17:52] *** atomotic has quit IRC (Quit: Textual IRC Client: www.textualapp.com) [19:18] *** Stilett0- has quit IRC () [20:21] *** Martini has joined #internetarchive [20:25] *** Stilett0- has joined #internetarchive [20:26] *** Stilett0- is now known as Stilett0 [21:12] *** Stilett0 has quit IRC () [21:52] SketchCow -> ever worked with retrieving data from late-60s era punched card decks? :) [21:55] Hobart: i haven't but i'm interested ... [21:56] if i were you i would bodge something together involving a sheetfeeding scanner and some quick image processing code [21:57] *** kyan has quit IRC (Read error: Operation timed out) [21:58] xmc -> the card deck is small enough that I'm having the owner scan it up as a PDF and I'm going to tediously transcribe it by hand, from what I've been able to Google, the common practice was to use the last 5-10 columns to preserve card order in a deck ... and the data has some checksum totals that'll probably work out. [22:01] oh gosh [22:01] how many cards is it? [22:01] (old vector font data) [22:01] mmmmph you have my attention [22:05] https://github.com/felipesanches/PunchedTapeScanner [22:05] oh this is better than i expected [22:05] hm though [22:05] tape [22:06] *** kyan has joined #internetarchive [22:09] mmmm, I'm guessing around 16K worth of data total [22:10] not gonna be fun to do by hand [22:11] (the BSD game 'ppt' item has a to/from translator for papertape ASCII but I think manually slurping the data out with patience and vim will work ;) [22:11] can try asking in #mame on freenode, I know people have been using software for reading mask rom die photos [22:15] *** REiN^ has quit IRC (Read error: Operation timed out) [22:20] xmc -> Each card holds 80col, the card data is roughly like http://i.imgur.com/gTTxv0Y.png (almost all bytes will be ASCII [EBCDIC?] '0'-'9') [22:21] hm [22:21] not sure what that is saying exactly, but yeah. it'll be numbers, one hole per column [22:22] or more [22:28] *** kyan has quit IRC (Remote host closed the connection) [22:34] *** Martini has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) [22:36] *** REiN^ has joined #internetarchive [23:01] *** Stilett0 has joined #internetarchive [23:01] xmc -> I'm each column will represent an EBCDIC or ASCII 0-thru-9 or SPACE , so hopefully the transcription burden won't be too crazy. :) [23:01] *** Stilett0 is now known as Stiletto [23:02] yeah, should be pretty straightforward [23:02] that picture, without context, is confusing