In a message dated 5/27/2009 7:12:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
because it seems cleaner to me.... (i'm a bit anal that way). But, now I know the origin and that changes everything. >> Well in the olden days when you dropped the deck(unprinted) it was possible to recover with the sorter. Or as one future sysprog determined, sorting was possible with a paperclip when the sorter was fried. Road to glory. Another future sysprog was watching and waiting for time as the programmer was processing 'registration' via cards. Think it was a sort merge where classes and student preferences were joined. About 14 trays of cards. Well the card reader was tired and humidity was up in the 90's and things weren't going well at all. So the kid says "just read 'em in upside down and I'll write a quick and dirty to turn them over". **************Dinner Made Easy Newsletter - Simple Meal Ideas for Your Family. Sign Up Now! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221991367x1201443283/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215225819%3B37274678%3Bs% 3Fhttp:%2F%2Frecipes.dinnermadeeasy.com%2F%3FESRC%3D622) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
