> Bernard Chester wrote:
>> Blake:
>>
>> You can scan the cards and convert the contents into text.  It is a pain 
>> to
>> program it, but it works.

IMHO it's much cheaper and faster (2-3 days) to decode 150 punch cards 
"manually" using coding tables. Or if you want to do some programming, I'd 
advise to ask a student to record the punches on each card. It will be much 
easier to write a decoding program for this kind of data :)

With best regards,
Natasha 

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