11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
11:10 p.m.
On 10/11/2005 at 10:50 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
It doesn't really say that they "could
not" punch over 2,000 cards;
it says that THEY were having a lot of errors, and WANTED a
faster, more reliable method. In fact, it explicitly says that they
DID punch and distribute some decks.
I remember that even the newer punches would warm up, particularly when binary decks were
being produced and start having problems. This was true even on the punch on the CDC
6600, which was the last system with a punch that I used (or maybe noticed that had one).
Cheers,
Chuck