It's interesting to me that I am seeing a couple of references to the 80's (albeit early 80's) in some of these posts related to punched cards. I started in 1984 at AT&T in Orlando (in I/O Distribution) and saw nary a punched card. I guess it depends on where you were.
-- All the best, Scott T. Harder On 5/27/09, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: >>As for sorting dropped cards: in the mid-80s, I worked at UofWaterloo. >>We had one full professor who refused to get off of cards. > > I think I know who that was. > > On a related note, at one Insurance Company I worked at, we had one of the > most prestigious pension plans in North America. > It was maintained by a file clerk, who would type updates on a keypunch, and > submit that and the master file as two card decks. > Every week, she (and it was a she in 1981) <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
