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Jeff Crosby wrote:
Once upon a time (sadly) I could decipher those punches. No longer; both the eyes and mind are fading fast. But the cards do have another advantage - they can't be demagnetized. On the other hand, I once dropped a box of cards on the floor; spent all night getting them back in the right sequence. Which was why we always had the keypunchers key the line numbers from the programming sheets.Does anybody know, other than not opening the source members in anything but SEU or EDTF, how to keep it from happening?Keep everything on punch cards. Read them into an MFCU whenever you need to compile.Joe No, no, Joe. MFCU is old technology. Use a 3741 diskette reader.But then you can't *SEE* the data. What if the power goes out? You can still look at the punched card and read it.
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