Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:32 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> 'Ey! What'cho got 'gainst punch cards?
>
> Never used the Power Samas 36? column cards, just the plain boring 80's.
Nope, just the normal 80 column punchs. All IBM, y'know.
>
> Was an excellent hand puncher. Could easily read cards by holding them
> up to the light and could fill-in the wrongly punched hole to avoid
> having to re-punch the entire card.
Never heard of a hand puncher. All I ever used or saw were desk-sized
machines.
>
> H-1250, H-120, H-L61, H-L66, H-L64, DPS 8 etc. + BBC Micro B & B+
To catch that error, it took the lab assistant, the *only* time in my
school career I needed one, to read the actual holes.
Nasty.
mark
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