On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:12:05 -0400, Walter Bushell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And what was the sorter? Ah, the beauties of the radix sort. This beast >put cards into 10 output slots, based on the digit in a specified >column, thus enabling sorting with tab cards and no computers. Lots of labor, with multiple passes for each column with alphanumeric - and the machine was the size of a wall - but it was cheaper than computer time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
