Easy question. Herman Hollerith wanted them to feel familiar, so he made them the size of a US Federal bill.
Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity Phil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >Jim Bohnsack wrote: >>I still "use" punched cards (IBM 5081's) as note cards. I retired from >>mainframe support last summer and have at least 2 boxes of cards (not >>punched). They are the best note cards in the world. > >And I just bought a box of 2,000 on eBay! > >Trivia question: How was the size of the IBM 80-column punch card chosen? > >...phsiii > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
