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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:57:51 +0100
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:27:53 +0100
Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:

> I suppose you'll now tell us about the joys of using punched cards. 

	Well I could - and mention the joys of using a card saw to unblock
the 1442.

> I don't envy you the joys of sorting a pile of punched cards that's
> been dropped on the floor ... 

	If you prepared the cards with sequence numbers in columns 73-80
then you just dropped them into a sorter (if the site had a sorter) -
otherwise it was less easy. It's the paper tape that someone trod on while
you were feeding it into the spooler that was less fun.

	No I do not miss those days, nor the overflowing box of waste paper
beside the printer under the notice ...

	TOWARDS THE
	 PAPERLESS
	  OFFICE

	That adorned one place where I worked on developing machines with
64K and twin floppies.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope