[OT] paper on Retro ? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Oct 2002

On Oct 19, 11:36, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

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  > Who remembers drawing a cross or a diagonal line
on the top of the card
 > deck, so you had some chance of re-ordering the deck 
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  Depended a lot on how often it would be changed.
 On a deck that would be changed OFTEN, you put ONE diagonal.  Next time
 that it changed significantly, you'd put a second diagonal.  By the time
 that you had a dozen different colors and directions of diagonals, that
 deck would be overdue to be recopied to have nice fresh crisp cards. 
We rarely did that.  We did use diagonal line(s) to see if a deck needed
sorted; if it wasn't too big then the line was usually enough.

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  At many locations, different colors of cards had
special meanings.  When I
...
  was working at Goddard Space Flight Center, I did not
have appropriate
 clearance for handling some of the colors of cards that I was working
 with. 
Yes, I can't remember all the colours except that blue was usually JCL.

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  > > Who remembers using a folded card (16 thou)
to check the points on their
...
  > > engine (nominally 15 thou)?  Folded in three
to check the spark plug gap
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   >
(nominally 25 thou)?? 
 And what did you use for adjusting your valves? (~ .006)  Zig-zags? 
No, anything more serious than a quick sanity check merited a real feeler
gauge :-)

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