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When PC Still Means 'Punch Card'

Posted by michael on from the do-not-fold-spindle-or-mutilate dept.

ricst writes: "The New York Times reports that there are stll many applications that use punchcards. "Use what?", you say. Slashdotters not yet in their dotage may have never seen these 80 column Hollerith field cards, or the clunky machines that are still used to punch holes in them. And let's not forget the bizarre JCL (Job Control Language) that's needed to be at the front of the deck. Well... turns out many companies still use them, with slight modifications (like the airlines that print a magnetic strip on them)."

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  1. Fuck the jews by Ralph+JewHater+Nader · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those backstabbing dogs need to be exterminated.

    --

    1. Re:Fuck the jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Insightful??? Is this your idea of a joke, or what?

    2. Re:Fuck the jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Right...who modded this up as insightful?

  2. I own you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Post?

    Maybe...

    --DQ (Neo)

  3. Re:I see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I punched a card once. The whole rack fell over. Then I was swiftly escorted out of the grocery store.

  4. Re:Where there are punch cards... by I.T.R.A.R.K. · · Score: -1, Troll

    Some friends of mine once did this to the inside of some guy's car. Roll down the window enough to get the hose in and let 'er rip!

    --

    "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

  5. THE END OF LENGTHENING AND WIDENING POSTS??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GO HERE

  6. Consider these punch cards. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    High Times has confirmed: *BSD is dying
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently High Times confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest HighTimes survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [HighTimes.com] in the recent HighTimes comprehensive networking test.
    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dead

  7. Re:The Horrors of Punch Cards by sllort · · Score: 0, Troll

    This suggests that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial cannot be arbitrary in problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis: this selectionally introduced contextual feature may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. On our assumptions, the notion of level of grammaticalness delimits an abstract underlying order.