Ah! The needle is used when you don't trust the sort machine! Now I
get it. I hope nobody thinks of these as "The good old days" :)
Mike Schwab wrote:
Picture on Page 7.
http://ibm-1401.info/PunchedCard_Section-2.pdf
A mechanical card sorter would select a slot based on a hole in a
particular column.
When you remove the cards from a slot, you verify the proper cards
were selected by putting a small rod through that hole.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Tom Brennan
<t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
Wow, 2 months shy of 50 years. Congratulations!
But what in the world was a sort needle?
Tony's Outlook via Mozilla wrote:
Colleagues, I saying my professional goodbye. I retired at noon today
after 49 years and 10 months in the business. The career began sorting
cards and wiring panels. Progressing past all the card machines to
Autocoder, RPG, Cobol, VSE, VM, PL1, Quikjob, Easytrieve, Panvalet, SAS, MVS
sysprogging (barely qualified), Top Secret, RACF, it's become time to hang
up the sort needle and card gauge.
IBM-MAIN and Assembler-L (again, I barely qualify) have been a great
source of education and entertainment.
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