15 Jul
2009
15 Jul
'09
5:55 p.m.
On 15 Jul 2009 at 20:32, William Donzelli wrote:
IBM had duplicating punches that could handle really
mangled cards.
For example, the punch cards used by tube dealers back in the 1960s
(used for reordering) were typically folded in three inside a sleeve
of tubes.
In that movie "Billion Dollar Brain", Karl Malden pulls three cards
folded in half out of his pocket and sticks them into the deck that's
being read by the H200 reader. I thought that was pretty gutsy.
Good thing that H200 wasn't a 360/20 with that insane 2560 MFCM--the
movie would have ended much sooner...
--Chuck