On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

> Always Learning wrote:
> >
> > 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.

The machines could be programmed by punching the programme onto another
same-sized punch card which fitted around a small circular drum. Girls
punched and verified my coding sheets and managed to insert more errors
into my coding that I had written. Never understood how they managed to
verify their own punching errors.



-- 
Regards,

Paul.
England, EU.

   Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office.
   Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past.

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