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[Kraten]

Shout out to BillHouse

[TrueJournals]

Re: Ok Here is my full case for this

[Kraten]

But from what I can find there is no other method that would use only three lines and no other characters that would use these punches and the additional lines and make readable words. and why is the other card so fake then? if there is another way other than the fourI have found to encode a card I was not able to find it. and again ALL four methods read the same and would encode the same for letters and numbers. All I am saying is it can't be random chance or the candidate card would read like the other one - gibberish

[Headman]

I am beginning to think they are not punch cards. Since the markings are on a "Bubble Form" the info would need to be read by Scantron or other device possibly using Optical character recognition (OCR) or Optical mark recognition (OMR). They would not run this form through an opical reader to collect the penciled in data and then a punch card reader. Will need to do more research, but I am pretty sure they are not hole punch.

[deshelbr]

Headman, I think you are looking at the wrong section. There is a scantron section, but everyone is looking at the OFFICE USE ONLY part, which is definitely punch-card.

"Call Class" makes sense as an instruction in programming. "Class&" means something in C++ language, but I don't know enough to explain. "AAAT21T" could be the name of the class, the name of an input variable for the class, or a value that needs to be passed into the class.

PDP-11 uses Assembly language. We'd probably benefit from having some people familiar with C++ and Assembly tell us what they think of the first message.

I like the theory that the Candidate Verification gibberish is an encrypted message and that it can be decrypted by passing it through the Class mentioned in the New Recruit form.

[TrueJournals]

[scifikg]

Maybe we are being given the 6-bit encoding of a card on a computer. The top 2-bits determine the zone and the other 4-bits determine the rows to be punched. I used a PDP-8 computer since it was used back in the 60's.


Taken from DEC's PDP-8 user manual



The translation I get


I thought that I might be on to something when is saw jm == josh minker, but it all appears to be gibberish.

[Froid]

although scifikg got ahead of me with the 6 bit encoding, i think we should carefully check the bits order.

according to google 6 bit encoding was used in CDC 1604 machine

there are several 6 bit character maps available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixbit_code_pages

More information to follow

[Billhouse]

Called in the Doctor.

[Headman]

[Xeno Lambrose]

Called the Doc

[Kraten]

Re: Called in the Doctor.

[Billhouse]

Re: Called in the Doctor.

[eolith]

I just called 866-222-8218 on my cell phone, and got what sounds like a modem attempting to connect. Anyone have a modem hooked up? I'll have to dig around and find my old one.

888 prefix doesn't work.

googling the 866 version returns a "Mr Number" website that seems to be for identifying the different phone numbers. http://mrnumber.com/1-866-222-8218

This one says it's "Buildblock building systems llc oklahoma city"
http://www.ggdegg.com/866-222-8218

googling Buildblock comes up with:
http://www.buildblock.biz/
http://www.buildblock.com/
That company does have another 866-222-xxxx number.

[eolith]

has any tried superimposing the two to see what results? 7 of them match.