On 07/08/2014 04:51 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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. The read up on Grace Hopper and how she 'discovered' an unknown opcode when a mispunch she glued in with nail polish. They used hand punchers a lot on her programming team. >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >