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> but probably less catastrophic than dropping a box of punched cards. unless they were sequence numbered and you had a sorting machine[0] :-) [0] https://en.
by noizejoy 2y ago
> but probably less catastrophic than dropping a box of punched cards.
unless they were sequence numbered and you had a sorting machine[0] :-)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card_sorter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card_sorter
- 9659 2y agoor, feed the cards into a reader. put them in a file. sort the file. send the file to a cardpunch. recycle the original card deck i don't remember how to do this on a CDC mainframe, but at one time in my life it would only have taken 15 minutes. of which 14 minutes would be waiting for my job to run.