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Francis, et al: Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! The closest I came to punched cards -- until "chaff" became part of the American political vocabulary -- was when I would visit the City of Oakland's D.P. Dept. I always thought the reason BASIC (& COBOL?) program code had line numbers was one could just run the deck through the sorter if it fell on the floor. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Hey that is a GREAT idea for a new Revolution feature! Have a way we can draw a graphical diagonal line along the side of a stack of cards, and then we can resort in their original order! BRILLIANT ;-) uh... btw... if the diagonal line was your only method for determining the proper order, how do you know you got it right... never mind. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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There ya go then! Take one of the oldest of problems and you find that one of the oldest of solutions still works! All the Best Dave On 10 Apr 2006, at 17:12, Jim Ault wrote: I have created a field "originalSequence", ran a loop to 'draw the diagonal lines', then sort by that field whenever nec. An inventory stack was one past project where I actually had 4 sort orders + mod dates. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/10/06 5:37 AM, "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, I dunno! Would it help to diagonal draw a line across cards in a RunRev stack? If they ever got out of order you could then maybe use the same trick to put em back again!?!? All the Best Dave On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:50, Marian Petrides wrote: but it would have helped 25 years ago. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to think of it then. On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too... I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in runrev. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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I have created a field "originalSequence", ran a loop to 'draw the diagonal lines', then sort by that field whenever nec. An inventory stack was one past project where I actually had 4 sort orders + mod dates. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/10/06 5:37 AM, "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, > > I dunno! Would it help to diagonal draw a line across cards in a > RunRev stack? If they ever got out of order you could then maybe use > the same trick to put em back again!?!? > > > > All the Best > Dave > > > On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:50, Marian Petrides wrote: > >> but it would have helped 25 years ago. Too bad I wasn't smart >> enough to think of it then. >> >> On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >>> Francis- >>> >>> Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: >>> For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! >>> >>> Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very >>> quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to >>> get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too... >>> >>> I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working >>> with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in >>> runrev. >>> >>> -- >>> -Mark Wieder >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, I dunno! Would it help to diagonal draw a line across cards in a RunRev stack? If they ever got out of order you could then maybe use the same trick to put em back again!?!? All the Best Dave On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:50, Marian Petrides wrote: but it would have helped 25 years ago. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to think of it then. On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too... I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in runrev. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, but it would have helped 25 years ago. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to think of it then. On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too... I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in runrev. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: > For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a > diagonal line > across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the > floor, and > then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it > often ! Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too... I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in runrev. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Hi from Paris, I just spent 3 days in Montelimar in a recording studio, and came back to Paris (without any nougat !) to find 3 days worth of posts. It took me 3 hours to plough through the posts to make sure I didn't miss anything important. Mostly, they talked about haggis !(HAGGIS ???) But there was one vital post I'm glad I didn't miss : - Bob Warren wrote: In actual fact, I was hand-punching machine language bootstrap routines on Hollerith cards before these people were even born. Have you ever dropped a stack of a thousand or so punch cards!? That was the last time I ever dropped a stack. Took me weeks to put the stack back in order before I could run it through the reader. :-( -Garrett --- For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often ! Oh ! - and I still have a Hollerith Card punch - worth a fortune maybe Ah ! - the good old days of 12-11-0-8-9 just to get such strange characters as left or right brackets ! We had such fun ... (and so many read checks !) But Rev is more fun ! -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !" ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
