31 Jul
2002
31 Jul
'02
6:26 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
The dollar was BIGGER in the 1890's. A good example of how your
buying power is shrinking.
The physical dimensions of the punched cards were
chosen to match dollar
bills, so that the processing hardware could make use of existing
subassemblies. I don't know why that particular hole to hole spacing was
chosen, but that combined with the size of the cards resulted in 80
column.
Are you sure? A punch card is a bit larger than a dollar bill.