>As for sorting dropped cards: in the mid-80s, I worked at UofWaterloo. >We had one full professor who refused to get off of cards.
I think I know who that was. On a related note, at one Insurance Company I worked at, we had one of the most prestigious pension plans in North America. It was maintained by a file clerk, who would type updates on a keypunch, and submit that and the master file as two card decks. Every week, she (and it was a she in 1981) would bring these two decks to the 5th floor computer room where operations would set up a copy job to dump the two files to disk, and then run the Production update stream. The last job would punch out the new master file, we'd feed it through the interpreter, and, on Monday, she'd show up, get the new cards and trundle back up to her office. We kept a reader/punch, a back up, a card interpreter, and 2 KP-29's around for just this one file. Finally, when the maintenance (and the reliability) got too hard to manage, we convinced the pension department to work with disk files. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
