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Re: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when

That is why the first 5 columns are for the line number, and why the line numbers increment by 10. A dropped deck could be run through the sorter. New lines of code be added by punching a line number in between the 10s so that a whole new deck didn't have to be key punched.

Was that key punch machine a 029? That seems familiar.




On 1/24/2013 3:37 PM, Thomas Garvey wrote:
I go back before that. How about an IBM 360 mod 30? 80 column card
reader/punch. If a file needed to be sorted, we had to load a deck of cards
(which were the sort program) that was about a foot thick. Somebody drooped
it once and all hell broke loose.

I started out as the 084 card sorter operator, working grave yard shift.


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