punchcard svg file available

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Sep 10 09:42:59 CDT 2015


On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
> they are PUNCHED cards
> look at ALL of the documentation of the period
> NO ONE called them PUNCH cards

Half a century ago, there were already some people who got it wrong.

I had a boss who insisted that blanks in the box were "PUNCH CARDS",
that it wasn't until they got used that they became "PUNCHED CARDS".
He also said that the colored pencils that I manually did graphs
with were "COLOUR PENCILS".


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com





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