Peter Humphrey: ... > I hate to think how many miles of 8-hole tape I wound and rewound. Thank > goodness we didn't have to cope with 80-column punched cards (Hollerith?) as > the ivory-tower, batch-processing mainframe people did. ...
Hollerith was the founder of the company which later became IBM. There are two things named as Hollerith, the cards which later developed into the IBM 80-col. card, and the constants representing text/strings/characters in early fortran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith Fortran was my first language, I still have unpunched cards left, perfect as bookmarks. /// Old style secondary storage (boxes of punched cards): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Federal_Records_Center,_Alexandria,_Virginia_(34877725360).jpg Regards, /Karl Hammar
