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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: J.B.C. who wrote (75567)	11/15/2000 11:56:26 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) of 769670

"When I was in college and we used an IBM 360 with punch cards. I would write programs with in total of excess of 1000 cards. You would verify your programs with "sets" that you knew what the answer would be. Which means that it HAD to read every card accurately. I can NEVER remember a failure of those test runs. When you didn't know what the answer was on real runs, you knew pretty close to expected results, or plain out the run wouldn't work if part of the "program" wasn't read correctly. Never happened, the occasional problem was a jam that is easy to correct." Jim, how many of those 1000+ punch card jobs that you ran were punched by hand with a stylus and read without error by a card reader? Regards, Don

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