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   From: djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid   
      
   Peter Flynn  writes:   
      
   > On 04/03/2025 15:23, Tim Slattery wrote:   
   > [snip]   
   >> A box of Hollerith (or IBM) cards held 2,000 cards. Each FORTRAN   
   >> statement would go on a separate card, so 2,000 FORTRAN  statements   
   >> is right. And if you dropped your box and spilled your cards, good   
   >> luck getting them back in the correct order!   
   >   
   > In my college, the computing centre had a card sorter, which was huge   
   > and stood on cast-iron lion's feet which someone had painted gold :-)   
   > But of course it only worked if your program statements or data lines   
   > (cards) were numbered. You only drop a box of cards once.   
   >   
   > (You may hear the voice of experience there :-)   
   >   
   > Peter   
   >   
   I worked for Honeywell at a WWMMCCS site (World-Wide Military Command   
   and Control System) at the Washington Navy Yard as a tech support   
   guy. This was about 1973. I created new boot decks for the Honeywell 635   
   as needed, with new patch cards or new configurations. I was carrying a   
   tray of punched cards to the computer room, one hand on each end of the   
   card tray. I tried to hook the door handle with my little finger to pull   
   it open and lost my grip on the tray; cards all over the floor!   
   Embarrasing to say the least, and I didn't even try to put them back in   
   order, just punched out a new deck.   
   --   
   -Don_from_AZ-   
      
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