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[David Burgun]

> Neat idea.  Not that I have a use for it now,

I dunno! Would it help to diagonal draw a line across cards in a  
RunRev stack? If they ever got out of order you could then maybe use  
the same trick to put em back again!?!?

<g>

All the Best
Dave


On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:50, Marian Petrides wrote:

>  but it would have helped 25 years ago.  Too bad I wasn't smart  
> enough to think of it then.
>
> On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> Francis-
>>
>> Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> 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 !
>>
>> Yes, and that's the sort of thing that experience will teach you very
>> quickly the first time you drop a stack. Note that it's possible to
>> get the stack put back together exactly backwards that way, too...
>>
>> I find it semantically interesting that in 2006 we're still working
>> with cards and stacks (but in an entirely different context) in
>> runrev.
>>
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net