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One trick of the trade I was taught early in my summer as a paid intern at IBM in London in 1974 was not to put my deck of 80 column cards on top of the line pr
by dave333 3y ago
One trick of the trade I was taught early in my summer as a paid intern at IBM in London in 1974 was not to put my deck of 80 column cards on top of the line printer. The line printer was a large machine about 6ft long by 2ft wide and 4ft high so its top was a natural place to leave a deck of cards while you were waiting for something. The problem was when the lineprinter runs out of paper the metal cover hinges open by itself and tips anything on the top onto the floor.
- unregistereddev 3y agoThank you for the anecdote. I'd heard horror stories of dropping a stack of cards and having to reorder them, so it's really cool to hear a story describing another way that can happen.
- KineticLensman 3y ago> I'd heard horror stories of dropping a stack of cards and having to reorder them One solution was to run a felt-tip pen in a stripe across the tops of the cards in a stack, so that when dropped it was relatively easy to do a first-pass sort.