Hello from Gregg C Levine Hmm. Been there. Have read his bio. It happens that he first used the French card shapes, which were closer to the ones used by the System/3. Then by time period you quite, his CTR company started using the card shapes, that we remember. So we are both right. I imagine everyone here, including Alan Altmark, and David Boyes, and one or two others, know the legends behind the uses IBM used the cards for, before the S/360 started off, so I won't go down that road. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Phil Payne > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] vi vs. ISPF > > > More like 1880s, Phil. The card was invented by him, for the sole > purpose of tabulating the mountain of data from the census from that > year. The machines that he designed went on to build one portion of > IBM's industries. > > If you bother to click on the link I posted: > > >> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html > > You'll a complete history of Hollerith. The first sentences are: > > "After receiving his Engineer of Mines (EM) degree, Hollerith worked on the 1880 > US census, a > laborious and error-prone operation that cried out for mechanization. After some > initial > trials with paper tape, he settled on punched cards (pioneered in the Jacquard loom) > to record > information, and designed special equipment to tabulate the results. His designs won > the > competition for the 1890 US census." > > And if you take the trouble to scroll down a little, you'll find the 80-column > rectangular > hole punched card we were using in teh 1970s was introduced in 1928. > > -- > Phil Payne > http://www.isham-research.com > +44 7785 302 803 > +49 173 6242039
