Trivia 2. What quirk of the punch card had an effect so profound that it survives today in EBCDIC?
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Charles Mills <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 04/01/2013 08:00 PM Subject: Re: PC2 - The New Punched Card Cloud Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 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
