"Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it." De

Didn't know that one. I do know: He died at the console of hunger and thirst next day he was buried face down, nine edge first paul

I do remember cards with no corner cut, and also with pointy corners rather than the usual rounded corners. Some devices would feed 12 edge first. I vaguely remember IBM reader/punch units where one went 9-edge first and the other 12-edge first. Then of course some card devices feed the narrow edge (1 column) first rather than the top or bottom row. CDC had a reader that worked column-wise and a punch that worked row-wise, so the interface logic for the punch needed a transpose operation while the reader doesn't -- given that both would transfer card data as a word per column. But Electrologica used the same hardware without the transpose logic in the controller, so the software would see columns from the reader but would have to construct rows to send to the punch. paul

On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 13:50 -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: I heard that when Tom Watson died they buried him 9-edge face down.