billybeek wrote: > Yup when I studied Electronics the head of the school was a retied old > IBM Engineer & one of the things we worked on was a IBM card reader, > He was great to talk to.
Sort is easy now: you click on a column heading and then on a button. To sort a card, you picked a row number that were one per character. Sort on the first or the second or so on.. All the cards went into the left top side of the machine and they went into the lower pockets based on that column. One at a time. So load cards precisely (because they were previously sorted on the previous character) and keep that joker running. Removing and stacking the results by rules was necessary but easy. They looked like this: 13310 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 80 column card sorter.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=13310| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94944 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
