23 Feb
2018
23 Feb
'18
2:39 a.m.
I can be more blunt, it was a total business failure mostly too late by
then key to tape or direct entry had started to come into the market and
could you imagine going to a place like an insurance company that had whole
floors full of card cabinets that only fit only 80 col cords and sell
them a different format ?
At least the round chad did not stick you your clothing or the carpets.
-pete
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk
wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2
>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs
The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the
Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per
row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never
bothered to wrap my mind around).
--Chuck