At 10:26 -0400 5/8/00, JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
>For punch cards, the rows, reading from the top were:
>
>    12-row
>    11-row
>     0-row
>    ... etc.
>    9-row
>
>a total of 12 rows of holes, and of course 80 columns. The upper left hand
>corner was cut off at an angle. Lord! We used to compose programs sitting at
>the keypunch, instead of a terminal. "Ah, youth is wasted on the young!"
>
>"So now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall."
>    Beatles
>
>Cheers,
>Jerry.

It's clearly an enhance, those two extra rows. Question is, who do we blame for them? Did Herman Hollerith do it or is it an IBM addition?

Dave
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