29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
4:33 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The most common was the 557. You too, with the aid of
the plugboard
can jumble colums, print them in the middle of the card and all sorts
of other neat stuff--except for printing 80 columns in a single row
across the top of the card--and enough punctuation to make sense of a
deck of FORTRAN source.
Yes, that was the one.
I'm working at another campus for the last few years, I hope that the
college hasn't thrown out my 557 "COBOL Interpreter"
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.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com