XPost: alt.slack, alt.2600   
   From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   "iDRMRSR the Reclined Mastar"  wrote:   
      
   > I wondar if anybody makes a card-readar for a PC these days?   
      
   When I feel nostalgic for my First Time with a wo^H^H computer (IBM   
   1620), I have a nice little program for Linux that displays an 80   
   column card, punches out the proper holes and prints (all upper case,   
   of course) along the top of the card as you type.  The virtual chad   
   accumulates at the bottom of the screen.  RETURN or typing past 80   
   cols ejects the card and gives you a new one.   
      
   The killer is that this is a working line editor.  Every virtual   
   card's text is saved in core..err... RAM. Cards can be discarded,   
   withdrawn and inserted elsewhere in the deck, new cards inserted and   
   the deck saved as a text file.  Files with no lines longer than 80   
   chars can be loaded and displayed as cards, one at a time.  Of course,   
   you can't backspace on a card.  Holes, you know? :-)   
      
   Oh, and when the chadbox is full, you get a CHADBOX FULL, WAIT card in   
   a contrasting color and the chadbox gets emptied.   
      
           The editor for when ed is overkill!   
      
   Oh, and I still use floppies for sneakernet between my Linux boxen and   
   her Windoes box.   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)