From: the-daring-dufas@peckerhead.net   
      
   Mike Spencer wrote:   
   > "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 withdrawn and inserted elsewhere in the deck, new cards inserted and   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.   
   >   
      
   I have 12gal tub full of the damn things somewhere. I have fallen in   
   love with my USB drives though, I'll never leave them unless something   
   better comes along like data carrying nanobots that nest on the back of   
   my hand and jump to the computer interface device (notice I didn't say   
   keyboard/mouse) whenever I access any computer containing device.   
      
   TDD   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)