On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, William Donzelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I can think of only one tiny shop in Ohio that still uses punch cards, > although very rarely (once a month?). Any others?
My dad used punch cards until he died in 2006. Of course, he carried them in his shirt pocket as notepads. I'm sure the old-timers know that the 80-column cards were the same size as old US bills. My dad had always heard this, and one day was in Manhattan and found himself walking by a coin and stamp store. An old $1 bill was taped to the inside of the window, and he had his pocket full of cards, so he grabbed one and held it up; sure enough, they were the same size. He's the only person I've ever known who that could have happened to... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
