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[Francis Nugent Dixon]

Hi from Paris,

I just spent 3 days in Montelimar in a recording studio, and came back
to Paris (without any nougat !) to find 3 days worth of posts.

It took me 3 hours to plough through the posts to make sure I didn't  
miss
anything important.

Mostly, they talked about haggis !    (HAGGIS ???????)

But there was one vital post I'm glad I didn't miss :

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Bob Warren wrote:
>
> ................................ In actual fact, I was hand-punching  
> machine language
> bootstrap routines on Hollerith cards before these people were even  
> born.

> 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.  :-(

-Garrett
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For anybody out there still using punched cards ........ Draw a  
diagonal line
across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the  
floor, and
then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle !  Did it  
often !

Oh ! - and I still have a Hollerith Card punch - worth a fortune maybe  
........
Ah ! - the good old days of 12-11-0-8-9 just to get such strange  
characters
as left or right brackets ! We had such fun ....... (and so many read  
checks !)

But Rev is more fun !

-Francis

"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"