I read that it was so that Hollerith, who was close to the treasury building, could "share" (5 finger discount) the containers that the treasury used for the bills. Likely not true, but more fun..
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c291239b4d9a...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com>, > on 04/01/2013 > at 07:47 PM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> said: > > >Trivia question: How was the size of the IBM 80-column punch card > >chosen? > > I recall reading that the reason for making it the size of a dollar > bill was so that he could use the same envelopes. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
