[kens]

> Anyone using punchcards would be amazed by keyboards

As someone who uses punchcards regularly, I don't understand what you mean. People used a keyboard to punch cards since the 1930s or earlier. You type on a keyboard and the keypunch puts the holes in the card.

[jdougan]

Which make and model of keypunch do people use these days? I thought that IBM had discontinued the Model 029 ages ago (along with all the other unit record equipment).

[kens]

I use the IBM 026 keypunch at the Computer History Museum. This is for historical things, not production use :-)

[Towaway69]

OK, is it then safe to say no one uses punch cards in production ;)

I just assumed that punch cards have gone the way of dinosaurs but always pleased to change my assumptions.