13 Jan
2011
13 Jan
'11
9:46 a.m.
On 13 Jan 2011 at 11:17, Bob Brown wrote:
Yes, but it was the card punches that really got the
noise levels
high! We had a 2540 in our datacenter and thankfully didn't run the
punch very often..but when we did......wow! -Bob
Yes, I remember the angry snarl when the punch started up, which was
rare, as the darned thing got pretty warm and after about 1000 cards
would start throwing verify faults. So it wasn't used a lot,
thankfully. Punching was done row-wise, as opposed to the reader
which was column-wise.
--Chuck