Is this the build sheet? Mysterious yellow card in Japanese
10-14-10, 09:17 PM
#1
Is this the build sheet? Mysterious yellow card in Japanese
Has anyone seen one of these? It kinda looks like an old school computer card with the punched out holes. It has the VIN up top along with some other numbers and words in English on top and other words in Japanese in the main body. See pics below:
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10-14-10, 11:41 PM
#5
80-column IBM Hollorith card; one EBCDIC character per column, so the whole card only holds 80 letters/numbers
Here's the decode key: You just match the pattern for each numbered column, in order:
First 15 charcters translate as:
AQJM1FB3312E083
Which (except for the lead-in characters AQ ) matches what is printed on the card at the top. So all you need is for someone to translate the japanese field labels along the top edge to know what the data is that the card carries.
Here's the decode key: You just match the pattern for each numbered column, in order:
Code:
______________________________________________
/&-0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR/STUVWXYZ
Y / x xxxxxxxxx
X| x xxxxxxxxx
0| x xxxxxxxxx
1| x x x x
2| x x x x
3| x x x x
4| x x x x
5| x x x x
6| x x x x
7| x x x x
8| x x x x
9| x x x x
|________________________________________________
AQJM1FB3312E083
Which (except for the lead-in characters AQ ) matches what is printed on the card at the top. So all you need is for someone to translate the japanese field labels along the top edge to know what the data is that the card carries.
10-15-10, 12:00 AM
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i have one of those for the FC too, i have the impression that if you went back to mazda in 1984, and put that card in, the factory would spit out your car....
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10-15-10, 03:01 AM
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Vacuum tubs, lol. When I first started switching for the railroad our switch lists were compiled from punch cards. Each railroad car had it's own card, got fed into the computer, sorted and a switch list was printed out. Then there's the 8" diameter, 128 kb, floppies that made terrible Frisbees.
10-15-10, 03:20 AM
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80-column IBM Hollorith card; one EBCDIC character per column, so the whole card only holds 80 letters/numbers
Here's the decode key: You just match the pattern for each numbered column, in order:
First 15 charcters translate as:
AQJM1FB3312E083
Which (except for the lead-in characters AQ ) matches what is printed on the card at the top. So all you need is for someone to translate the japanese field labels along the top edge to know what the data is that the card carries.
Here's the decode key: You just match the pattern for each numbered column, in order:
Code:
______________________________________________
/&-0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR/STUVWXYZ
Y / x xxxxxxxxx
X| x xxxxxxxxx
0| x xxxxxxxxx
1| x x x x
2| x x x x
3| x x x x
4| x x x x
5| x x x x
6| x x x x
7| x x x x
8| x x x x
9| x x x x
|________________________________________________
AQJM1FB3312E083
Which (except for the lead-in characters AQ ) matches what is printed on the card at the top. So all you need is for someone to translate the japanese field labels along the top edge to know what the data is that the card carries.
What a completely cool piece to have with the car!!!
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10-15-10, 08:11 AM
#11
Waffles - hmmm good
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Very interesting. I haven't worked with a hollerith punchcard since 1983. My
school programming projects involved boxes of those things.
Thats from the days when the US used to sell overpriced computer hardware
to the Japanese. Now its reversed and so has our economy
school programming projects involved boxes of those things.
Thats from the days when the US used to sell overpriced computer hardware
to the Japanese. Now its reversed and so has our economy
10-15-10, 02:27 PM
#15
Waffles - hmmm good
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Actually the last time I messed with hollerith cards was in the form of aperture cards
which were used by manufacturers to store large engineering drawings up to E size.
They had a little window with a negative of the drawing and you used a scanner
to digitize the image from the card and read the punched data as well.
I wrote interfaces for the scanners back in the day.
Heres what they look like:
which were used by manufacturers to store large engineering drawings up to E size.
They had a little window with a negative of the drawing and you used a scanner
to digitize the image from the card and read the punched data as well.
I wrote interfaces for the scanners back in the day.
Heres what they look like:
10-15-10, 03:31 PM
#17
Originally Posted by KansasCityREPU
Reminds me of my Navy days back in the 80's. We had to decipher binary-coded hexidecimal just to program the computer (NAVNAC UYK-20 I believe)
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