On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, MikeS wrote:
  Of course now we've seen the error of our ways and
have returned to parallel
 processing; a modern card reader would no doubt read cards top to bottom
 again, with each column connected to its own CPU. 
80 12 bit CPUs?
Naah. just one (or 12) 80 bit CPUs?
On nit to pick:
"NINE edge first"  They were USUALLY read bottom to top.
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 X Y    (X,Y were sometimes called 11,12)
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