A thanks to a cacher known as "sliderule" who inspired this.
I've always loved old computing devices. Perhaps you've found one of my slide rules in a cache? I thought it would be neat to encode the location of a geocache on a Hollerith card.
Who was Hollerith? Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) developed for the US Census Bureau a way to encode information onto a punch card and then to read it on an electric tabulator. Eventually Hollerith's company became IBM and his punch card for decades the standard way to enter information into computers.
So I dragged a keypunch and long extension cord into West Hills County Park. Alas, I realized that I don't have a PDP8 to read the card on, so hopefully you can decode the card for me.
FTF gets a 1943 steel cent.
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