How to read TI-59 cards without a TI-59?

[Pjwum]

Sooner or later you will end up anyway with a bunch of TI59, TI58c and so on. Inevitably. :-)

So why all the hassle with analyzing cards, breadboards to run a magnetic head (!!!), ... ? I am with Max. Get a clean TI59 with accessories for 30-40, fix the rubber wheel and you are in business again. Or even better, salvage the parts which died on your original machine and restore it.