Hi All, I heard an interesting side-note at a LUG meeting in NH once.
Apparently, about the time the punch card concept was conceived, machines that had been used by the government to count and sort the larger US paper money prior to about 1933 or so, when the modern paper money size was standardized, became available as cheap surplus. Had these not been available, punch cards may have been a different size and development of suitable sorters cost more and taken longer to design, slowing down the whole process. Mike --- Craig Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody else who was born in the '70s ever use their > father's punch > cards to build card houses? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html -- 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/
