I remember once seeing a used card sorter in a side show tent at a country fair somewhere. I think it was in the tent where you could have your fortune read or your weight guessed.
Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder acceptable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.” [George Orwell] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:18:02 AM Subject: Re: 'Hacking The Mainframe': What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Its Favorite Tech In <[email protected]>, on 04/12/2013 at 11:41 PM, Dale Miller <[email protected]> said: >It wasn't always blinking lights that the public and Hollywood >equated to computers. I think that of the movies I have seen, most >of them focused (pun not intended) on spinning reel-to-reel tape >drives. And card sorters. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
