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Old 04-07-2009, 09:25 PM   #5
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Default Re: Happy Birthday Internet!?!

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Originally Posted by tobii3 View Post
um.....you DO realize that a majority of the Inmates weren't even a twinkle in their daddy's eye in '76??

On another note....remember programming (punching) the &^%$#$^&* Hollerith cards??

Or having to sort the &^%$%&* things after someone knocked them off the feeder tray???
My first programming job I had to create the Hollerith cards and carry the deck to operations to run the program. Sorting a dropped deck was never an issue if you were smart and used columns 73-80 as sequence numbers. A shuffled/dropped deck could be run thru a sort machine to get the cards back in order.
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