# Just for fun: x026

x026 is an IBM 026 Keypunch Emulator for the X Window System.

## Features

- Requires slow, deliberate typing or input will be lost (typeahead can be enabled if you insist)
- Overpunches available by backspacing or holding down Alt or Meta
- Tab set for FORTRAN
- Automatic sequence numbers in columns 73-80 (can be disabled)
- Paste X11 selection with middle mouse button
- Can save deck in file, either in ASCII or in Douglas Jones's standard format
- Can select from several card and keypunch types

## Source Code

The source for x026 is here.

## Keypunch Links

For lots of information on punched cards (including the images used to construct x026), try Douglas Jones's Punched Card Collection.
For a picture of a real 029 keypunch, try Ed Thelen's Antique Computers page.

## Ongoing Development

I used a real 026, once, sometime around 1976. I don't recall many of the specifics. I would appreciate any help to make the emulation more accurate -- contact me with manuals, anecdotes, complaints, etc.