On Oct 21, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
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
Ouch.. that hurts.. I had to write a tape conversion utility UNIVAC ->
IBM -> UNIVAC while I was in the army.
I came away from that experience think UNIVAC'S were terrible machines
to work on.
Ed
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