3 Mar
2026
3 Mar
'26
5:50 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Mar 2026, Fred Cisin wrote:
With a couple thousands I mean several thousands. And
drawerS and
cabinetS
because we got several cabinetS with drawerS with our
machine. One
drawer
contains three trays that hold about 2000 cards each.
Download our files and count the card yourself!
Download from where?
3 Mar
3 Mar
6:51 p.m.
New subject: Operating system, on punch cards
> With a couple thousands I mean several thousands.
And drawerS and
> cabinetS because we got several cabinetS with drawerS with our machine.
> One drawer contains three trays that hold about 2000 cards each.
> Download our files and count the card yourself!
On Tue, 3 Mar 2026, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
Download from where?
Sorry, but, "several thousands" and a "couple thousands" both seem to
me
to mean less than 5 thousand, so I still don't understand. Sorry about
that.
Did you meaan "thousands of thousands"?
or thousands and thousands and thousands, and . . .
When I worked at GSFC (Goddard), my desk was in a room with one wall being
a row of card filing cabinets, (height and width of 4 or 5 drawer regular
filing cabinet, but with car drawers)
So, "hundreds of thousands" is certainly a likely possibility, . . .
In addition to the cardboard retail packaging of 2,000 cards, there were a
variety of special boxes, suitcases, et.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
7:03 p.m.
New subject: Operating system, on punch cards
On Tue, 2026-03-03 at 18:51 -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
When I worked at GSFC (Goddard), my desk was in a room
with one wall
being
a row of card filing cabinets, (height and width of 4 or 5 drawer
regular
filing cabinet, but with car drawers)
In my office at JPL I had a 20-drawer card file — ten drawers high, two
wide, really nice ball-bearing slides — Wright Line IIRC. After we
replaced the 7094s with 1108s, they mostly went on tape, then
eventually onto the hard drive in my PC. Just like all other old farts.
8:25 a.m.
New subject: Operating system, on punch cards
What other dusty deck's do you have lurking?
(I have no FTP)
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