[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

mike shlitz mshlitz at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 9 09:05:36 EST 2007


Hi All,

I heard an interesting side-note at a LUG meeting in
NH once.  

Apparently, about the time the punch card concept was
conceived, machines that had been used by the
government to count and sort the larger US paper money
prior to about 1933 or so, when the modern paper money
size was standardized, became available as cheap
surplus.  Had these not been available, punch cards
may have been a different size and development of
suitable sorters cost more and taken longer to design,
slowing down the whole process.

Mike



--- Craig Taylor <ctalkobt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody else who was born in the '70s ever use their
> father's punch
> cards to build card houses?


 
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