Diagonal line, I never thought of that!
But I only just now realized why a dropped deck was never much of an issue
for me. (I'm slow.) I was, as I said, a $HASP operator - but a) the
social-scientist geeks who brought in large boxes of cards didn't care about
the order, and anyway I never
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I used 026, 029, and 129 machines. (And the 010 machines; remember those!)
Never bothered me
I used 026, 029, and 129 machines. (And the 010 machines; remember those!)
Never bothered me, but I agree with the comment that their use (and punched
cards in general) encouraged me to be much more careful with my "on paper"
programming before starting to punch cards. Dunno how to translate this
