Face down, nine-edge first
David N. Smith (IBM)
dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Mon May 8 17:14:47 UTC 2000
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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