Scott T. Harder wrote:
Now, see???....... THAT is a great piece of information! I *hate* those damn numbers.... always having to do NUM OFF and many times having (or just wanting) to clear the numbers off the end (just because it seems cleaner to me.... (i'm a bit anal that way). But, now I know the origin and that changes everything.
Count yourself lucky how you learned about that. When I was a systems programmer at ADR, we had one programmer with the bad habit of resting his box of punch cards on the 1403; it was conveniently next to the card reader, and a comfortable height. He persisted in this habit despite numerous warnings, and cited having seen me do the same thing. Then one day the printer ran out of paper, the cover lifted, and his deck decorated the floor; he also saw that one section didn't raise, and that's where I normally put my cards <g>
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