[Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

[David Burgun]

On 8 Apr 2006, at 02:06, Bob Warren wrote:

> Garrett Hylltun wrote:
>
> >Have you ever dropped a stack of a thousand or so punch cards!?  That
> was the last time I ever dropped a stack.  Took me weeks to put the
> stack back in order before I could run it through the reader.
>
> Yes, and worse. On one occasion I was feeding in trays and trays of  
> cards that represented free gifts to the clients. Although I was  
> always very methodical and careful when doing this, somehow, I  
> don't know how, I fed in a tray (or more?) of cards twice. As a  
> result, about 10,000 customers got their rather expensive gifts in  
> duplicate! Needless to say, proper statistical controls were  
> implemented by my department afterwards. It turned out to be quite  
> didactic.
>
> Bob

That's what the sequencing field was for! If you used it, you could  
run it thru the sorted and it would put them all back in order!

All the Best
Dave