On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 08:35 -0400, Bill wrote: > According to Wikipedia's "On this day...", Herman Hollerith received a > patent for his punch card calculator on this day (8 June) in 1887. Go, > Herman!!
Hmmmm - my first experience with Hermans baby was cards that had to be punched by hand - using a straightened paperclip in our case. Using a biro to do the job made the hole rounder and *really* confused the reader. > I still have a handful of blank cards that I liberated from a service bureau > ca. 1985. I use them sometimes to write notes to myself (without punching > them, though). They fix perfectly in my shirt pocket. Amdahl provided them with the company logo and "subject" and "date" fields - pre-ruled for easy note writing. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
