From: john@gintell.org   
      
   On 2/7/15 1:28 PM, billnechamen@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 9:28:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >> In the Winter 2014 Classic Trains, pg 44, there is a photo of a station   
   operator.  In the background there is an IBM 029 keypunch (maybe a 129).  The   
   caption says the picture is form the early 1980s, which is quite late for the   
   keypunch era; more were    
   replaced by key-disk machines by then.   
   >   
   > I was in grad school in the early 1980s and we were still using keypunch   
   machines for some projects.   
   >   
      
   In 1984 Cambridge, MA replaced it's paper ballot system with punched cards   
   (non-municipal elections) and equipment at Harvard was used for the counting.   
   In   
   2004.  In 1997 a new optical scanner system was first used for Municipal   
   elections and then for the non-municipal elections as well - and that was the   
   end of the punched card system.   
      
   The Mass Turnpike converted from punched cards to FastLane/EasyPass in   
   1998/1999.   
      
   I still have in my possession a card deck of an English to PigLatin translator   
   written in Fortran by me in 1962!   
      
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