^X (was: an odd question

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 08:58:35 2001

> -kb, the Kent who also once opened a comment before column 76 and
> didn't close another comment before column 76 for many lines, causing
> the intervening lines to be silently dropped.
>
>
> P.S. Circa 1980 we even did one assignment on a punch card machine.
> The physical reader was a relatively svelt machine (at least compared
> to the central beasts we students could not touch), and it talked to
> an impressive looking, floppy-equipped PDP-11/34, bootstrapped via the
> front panel and everything. (Did they call the whole thing a Remote
> Job Entry Station?) What *was* that record separator card? A 6-7-8
> overpunch? What was the job separator card??

On the Cybers, 6/7/8 was EOR (end-of-record), and 6/7/8/9 was EOI
(end-of-information). I suppose that's what you mean by "job
separator").

-dq
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