Re: integers and arrays inJava - how?

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:06:11 -0500, "Rhino"
<no.offline.contact.please@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

. I think they said it was the last working card reader in the
country. But aside from a few rare cases like the service bureau, card
readers haven't seen significant use since the late 1970s.

I remember how cantankerous card readers were. They would mangle your
cards if the edge had even the tiniest burr. And the reader itself
burred the cards so you to duplicate your decks periodically to keep
them running. Readers had a knife edge to peel exactly one card off
the bottom of the deck. The burr threw off this thickness
calibration.

Then, I think it was Comterm, invented a card reader that fluffed the
cards with air. It sucked them along with a satisfying soft thwak
thwak sound and never jammed no matter what shape the cards were in.
Of course we stopped using cards entirely around that time.

I have thought there may be a general principle. Once a technology is
perfected, market forces insist it be declared obsolete.
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