30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
9:14 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: TEXT (WAS: Re: OT: Location and GPS
Back in the days when I punched cards, running them back though and having
the text printed across the top was called "verifying" them, as best as I
remember (Sperry - Univac computer), hence the info in my previous post. No,
never learned to sight-read Hollerith. Hated punched cards - swore I'd never
have anything to do with computes after college Fortran; famous last words -
I became a professional programmer in 1978 and worked until retirement in
1999. "So, Stuart, how DOES crow taste?" I loved playing / working with
computers as soon as terminals were available to me.
The only use I ever had for punched cards was to fold one double and clean
under my fingernails with it...
Stuart Johnson
That actually
sounds like an intresting project.
A program that will read in a text file, and create a PDF
file containing a series of card images.
Getting that faded-ribbon look for the text at the top of the cards
would probably be the hardest part.
ribbon?? text??
why should the cards be "INTERPRETED"?
Can't y'all read Hollerith?