[geeks] Software Bloat

[Ken Hansen]

HAH!

Filed again!

They were an Open Standard *before* RMS  invented it!

They are (I assume) Hollerith cards, 80 columns wide, notch on the upper
left corner, same measurements across "platforms"...

You could punch data on your IBM key punch, then sort them on your Burroughs
and add them on your Univac!

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Software Bloat


> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:22:16PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:16:10PM -0800, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > > Wow, is it just me or does anyone else feel old too?
> > > "... when BASIC had line numbers" indeed!
> > > Joshua, you crack me up... Maybe some day I'll explain
> > > to you why real programers only code up to column 71,
> > > and what it means to have a character in the 72nd
> > > column... ;^)
> >
> > I've got an unused "pad" of punched cards (bound together in "tear one
off"
> > checkbook style).  I should write him a letter with them, and pay him
> > $20 if he can email me back what they say. 8-)
>
> Err, would you tell me what machine they were for?
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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