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To: J.B.C. who wrote (75567)	11/15/2000 11:49:59 AM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Supporters of hand counting are merely hanging on to their last thread of hope. That sums it up. LoF

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

To: J.B.C. who wrote (75567)	11/15/2000 12:05:11 PM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't know much about the punch cards you used. But as far as I know, the punch cards used in labs and computers had holes punched PERFECTLY by machines and not by hand. Hence you can NEVER remember the failure. These were punched by humans, some of them fragile old ladies, with a pen or whatever. I am not hoping that Al Gore wins. I don't see any advantage in his victory unless it is convincing to all voters. Same should be true for Bush.