Saturday, August 7

August 7, Saturday - Pat and Cindy will be over tomorrow. Had a usual Saturday.

August 8, Sunday - Pat and Cindy spent the day with us. Had a nice quiet day. Was exhausted and went to bed early.

August 9, Monday - Got hair fixed. Beauty shop will be closed on Monday from now on. Called about keypunch school. Sounds good. Took Bud to (continued on next page - Dr. Williamson. Went fishing.)

Pat and Cindy are my half-brother's wife and their daughter, my niece.

Keypunch school. Keypunch was a means of feeding programming and input information to a computer, 80 characters at a time, via punch cards. You remember punch cards, right?

80 Character Punch Card

Information was entered into a punch card via a console, then the card was sent to a verifier who checked the information. The card was then sent to a mainframe card reader attached to a computer that input the data, where it was manipulated to produce the desired computation.

The idea of going to a keypunch school sounded good to mom and her sister. A sit down down job with normal hours that wasn't retail.