I can be more blunt, it was a total business failure mostly too late by then key to tape or direct entry had started to come into the market and could you imagine going to a place like an insurance company that had whole floors full of card cabinets that only fit only 80 col cords and sell them a different format ?
At least the round chad did not stick you your clothing or the carpets. -pete On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2 > > > >>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs > > The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the > Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per > row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never > bothered to wrap my mind around). > > --Chuck > >
