11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
10:17 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
"could not punch out 2,000 binary cards"????
I've punched many decks much larger than that.
(DP of Office of Civil Rights, Space Sciences Data Center at GSFC)
Well you can read it yourself.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/Backus/backus.html
You CAN refill the supply
and empty the output without stopping the punch.
But,..
tape certainly is HANDY when you are talking about more than a box of
cards.
Looking at all the restored old software , very little seems to have
been kept in a vault
like old movies by DEC or IBM or the other computer companies. I think
this is reminding
us something important, private people need to be able to have
information that only the
today M$ and Intel are keeping private to themselves.