From: Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The expensive electrical card punches (the size of a desk) printed
the
ascii equivalent across the top of the card at the same time as
printing
it.
Or more likely the EBCDIC equivalent if you used IBM machines. :-)
Ah, the good old days...
Ah yes, the
On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:53, David Webber wrote:
From: Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The expensive electrical card punches (the size of a desk) printed
the
ascii equivalent across the top of the card at the same time as
printing
it.
Or more likely the EBCDIC equivalent if you
I wasn't for when YOU dropped them so much as when the computer ops
dropped them (and didn't tell you). Particularly BEFORE the run!
That was why we put big diagonal lines in felt pen across the tops.
How many computer users nowadays have ever seen or
a punch card? I have a couple in
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Richard Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
How many computer users nowadays have ever seen or used
a punch card? I have a couple in a box as souvenirs.
That 72 is especially bizarre. How many people these days
could even tell you where that strange number
How many computer users nowadays have ever seen or used
a punch card? I have a couple in a box as souvenirs.
That 72 is especially bizarre. How many people these days
could even tell you where that strange number comes from?
But lots of software does it.
I used the columns after 72 for
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jack Campin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The odd thing is, here am I, more than 30 years on, sitting at
a Power Mac 9600/200 with 384Mb of memory - whereas the 1130 had
32Kb, I think, and presumably ran at a few thousand instructions
per second - but despite having a few
John Chambers wrote:
Since ABC is widely used to send tunes via email, ABC ends up being
embedded inside messages in lots of other formats. It's fairly common
for this to garble the ABC, as the encoding software is usually
debugged only with ordinary (English) text. Decoding is
Christian M. Cepel writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
|
| Since ABC is widely used to send tunes via email, ABC ends up being
| embedded inside messages in lots of other formats. It's fairly common
| for this to garble the ABC, as the encoding software is usually
| debugged only with
How many computer users nowadays have ever seen or used
a punch card? I have a couple in a box as souvenirs.
That 72 is especially bizarre. How many people these days
could even tell you where that strange number comes from?
But lots of software does it.
I used the columns after 72
John Chambers wrote:
Christian M. Cepel writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
|
| Since ABC is widely used to send tunes via email, ABC ends up being
| embedded inside messages in lots of other formats. It's fairly common
| for this to garble the ABC, as the encoding software is usually
|
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