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 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 sequence numbers so I could
use the sorter to put a deck of cards back in order if
(when) I dropped them.  Up to 72, I used for FORTRAN code.
lol  ... and on a good day I could get two or three runs at
the school computer.


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