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Resources for 50s/60's programming lore?
Looking for suggestions/resources on where to look into understanding commentary about old programming references (notes circa 1950's / 1960's)
aka. could use row on punch cards as "page number" to machine sort dropped group of punch cards, which at 2 ^ 7 gave max ~127 index references.
For higher order number of punch cards & simpler/less expensive sorting, use felt tip marker to add lambda mark along side of block of punch cards.
- sydbarrett74 4y ago
- mikewarot 4y agoHere's the instructional video[1] for the IBM COMPUTER CARD 82 SORTING MACHINE, the fact that it could do numeric AND alpha sorting based on such a simple mechanism is amazing. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXI4441j00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXI4441j00
- bklaasen 4y agoDatamation magazine? https://archive.org/details/pub_datamation https://archive.org/details/pub_datamation