29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
4:49 p.m.
> I was fortunate enough to have access for a while
(George Washington
> University) to a special model of the 29 punch that would do interpreting.
> It was slow, but it did proper 80 column across the top.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007,
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I don't know if that feature was standard for all
029s, but I saw it
on every one that I used. You could tell what someone was up to when
you saw an 029 with a hopper full of cards sitting unattended going
"rattle-rattle-rattle....rattle, ker-chunk" over and over again.
Of the MANY 29s at GWU, only one had the word "interpret" on it's name
label, and the ability to interpret a deck of already punched cards.
All of the others could only intrepret what it was punching.