Re: integers and arrays inJava - how?
- From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:08:19 GMT
Roedy Green wrote:
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.
One set of particularly cantankerous card readers I had the misfortune
to have to use demanded at least a thickness slightly greater than that
of a new card. I still remember having to bash the side of a new card
deck against the edge of a table a few times to mangle the leading edge
enough to persuade the reader to read ONE card at a time.
Patricia
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