On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:16:15 -0500, tony babonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nope, not exactly. Count me in. In the late 70s we ran an election >tabulation program using CB on a 25?? reader. The card had punches in >almost every position. Years before the hanging chads. >... >>Congrats.. you are the first person that I have ever heard of that used >>column binary. It seems it was a legit reason as well. Here I thought it was >>only used by some IBMer that was in a back room. >... Back in the loate 60s there was a utility (IBM's or a customer's, I don't know) that would read Univac punched cards. The Univac card had 2 logical rows per card, each with 6-hole columns I assume. It took a column binary read to process the card. The horizontal spacing was inconvenient, too. Colunms of round holes. Some over an IBM column; some were between 2 columns. Those holes in between were wide enough to be read by 2 adjacent brushes. The reader didn't have any problem with that, but the program had to compensate. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
