Look at the “Punched Cards” section, a little more than half-way down this page: mass:werk <lounge> I’ve used both IBM 026 and 029 keypunches, and had no idea how complicated the text printing mechanism was (Punched Card Typography Explained) There’s also a Retro Computing section near the top of the Lounge page.
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BTW, you can also in engage in virtual punch card operations here (by generating and scanning stacks of punch card images, including card appropriate print on the individual cards):
However, only some modern languages are supported (JS, Perl, Python). Fortran and Cobol compilers were planned, but a job interfered … and than I ran out of steam. (I really ought to add Fortran, at least. Probably a backward compatible version of Fortran 77.)
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Some write-ups on retro computer related projects (for RetroChallenge) can be found here:
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/tag=stay-at-home-ed
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