On 12/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used sorters and card reproducers back in high school as well -- It was > so high tech.
Yeah, IBM used to call this "unit record" equipment, I guess the cards were the units. I had a graduate student friend when I was an undergraduate. He had come back to school after some time in a "unit record" shop in Texas. He told a story about how he had accompanied his techically challenged boss to a trade show. One vendor was demonstrating a fast card sorter by feeding in a shuffled deck of multi-colored cards. All the yellow cards were going into one bin, the red cards into another etc. His boss looked at this for the longest time and then turned to him and said: "Tom, I've seen a lot of fancy equipment in my day, but this is the first machine I've ever seen that could sort cards by COLOR!" --- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
