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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-05 07:39, Paul wrote:   
   > On Tue, 3/4/2025 11:28 PM, Don_from_AZ wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > You could put numbers in column 72.   
   >   
   > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Fort   
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   I can not read punched cards.   
      
   The lab at uni used them just the year before me. I never had to use   
   cards or punched paper tape.   
      
   :-D   
      
   The trouble was, there were not enough terminals for all the students. I   
   tried going somewhere where you could rent a computer by the hour.   
   Finally I decided I needed a computer of my own, a PC clone. I was   
   fortunate to have a family that could afford it.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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