Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:32 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> 'Ey! What'cho got 'gainst punch cards? > > Never used the Power Samas 36? column cards, just the plain boring 80's. Nope, just the normal 80 column punchs. All IBM, y'know. > > Was an excellent hand puncher. Could easily read cards by holding them > up to the light and could fill-in the wrongly punched hole to avoid > having to re-punch the entire card. Never heard of a hand puncher. All I ever used or saw were desk-sized machines. > > H-1250, H-120, H-L61, H-L66, H-L64, DPS 8 etc. + BBC Micro B & B+ To catch that error, it took the lab assistant, the *only* time in my school career I needed one, to read the actual holes. Nasty. mark