On 5/21/19 12:34 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > I might think far more "obsolete" than "bad idea". It worked very well > for the mainframe folks.
...except when it didn't. On more than one occasion, I recall watching some poor soul with a cart balanced with long (3 foot) trays full of cards, hitting a lifted separator strip in the raised floor. Over goes the cart, the cards spread in every direction, and the pusher sitting in the middle of it all, close to tears. If you happen to chance across any old card decks and note traces of a diagonal line drawn across the top, that's the reason--a visual aid for reassembling a spilled deck. I think the integration folks eventually moved to 4-wheel carts instead of the 3-wheel ones for exactly this reason. Their job was integrating new code and patches into the existing product base. The trip with the cards was to make a tape of the data, so that the trip didn't have to be repeated. --Chuck
