Hello again from Gregg C Levine Sorry, typo daemon at work. Drat! That word should be, "Quote". ------------------- 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 > Gregg C Levine > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] vi vs. ISPF > > 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
