7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
4:24 p.m.
---------------Original Message:
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: Re: More vintage hardware still alive and kickin'
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On 6 Jun 2009 at 20:47, Andrew Burton wrote:
> I'm just curious... how many cards would a
machine like that sort
> through in a day, or a week? That counter has 6 digits and it sorted
> ~90 cards in less than 10 seconds.
Well, an 083 will feed about 1000 cards/minute and a
good operator
can keep it running all day. How many cards could be sorted,
depends, of course, on the number of colums being sorted (one pass
per column, plus fumble and jam time...
--Chuck
------------Reply:
Oh yeah! A jam would really cut into your production, especially if
the sense switches didn't shut it down quickly or at all; the cards
would crumple and pile up pretty quickly. And of course since you
were handling stacks of 4000+ cards sooner or later you inevitably
dropped one, sending them literally sailing around the room; digging
them out from under all the other machines really made your day...
Fond memories of my days as a junior operator...
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