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

[Garrett Hylltun]

David Burgun wrote:
> 
> 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!

Unfortunately we did not have one.  Just a puncher and a reader.  :-(

-Garrett