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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <633@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 14:05:41 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.633
Posted: Thu Feb 19 14:05:41 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 21:23:37 EST
References: <2319@sunybcs.UUCP> <1596@kitty.UUCP> <1845@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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Keywords: early computers, trivia, humor

In article <1845@ihlpl.ATT.COM>, res@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) writes:
> There was a programmer who liked to slip one of these 80x12 cards into
> the decks he brought over to have duplicated.  He seemed to get his
> jollies listening to the gang punch as it went 

The machine is the reproducing punch, which is capable of gangpunching
but that is not card duplication as you described.  Gangpunching is
punching columns from a previous card into successive cards.  For real
slick operations, you could program when to switch masters (interspersed
master gangpunching).

Ah, it brings back such memories.  I used to program those things.  My
favorite feature is that if you wanted machine readable output from the
402 accounting machine, you dragged this big 80x12 contact plug over
to the 514 and punched some cards.

-Ron