Well, Pat -- I wonder if a spare bedroom would hold a card punch and a reader and a sorter -- not to mention the noise and the stress on the framework of the house. These things were MACHINES! Not only did the cards carry the data (as we learned to call "information") but they held the programs as well. Oh, boy! The excitement and vocabulary lesson when someone carrying a stack of program cards dropped them! And, remember -- not all nor everywhere was punch cards. Many of us spent untold hours shortening #2 Eberhards transcribing deathless "data" onto sheets which were . . . not faxed, but sent by company (Army, in my case) mail to someplace else, where someone else did something else with them (probably putting them on punchcard) while we went back out and did another yard check. The good ol' days . . . Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Chuck... I knew that you worked at IBM and I was hoping you would check in. Thanks! I had a feeling that anything having to do with punch cards would probably be quite large. I doubt I will be able to convince my wife that we need to have a computer museum in a spare bedroom. - -pat The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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