Fortran Coding Form Pads...

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Jul 31 13:30:01 2002

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
> > The physical dimensions of the punched cards were chosen to match dollar
> > bills, so that the processing hardware could make use of existing
> > subassemblies. I don't know why that particular hole to hole spacing was
> > chosen, but that combined with the size of the cards resulted in 80
> > column.
>
> Are you sure? A punch card is a bit larger than a dollar bill.

  I'm looking at an E-series bill (pre-'60) and although I haven't seen
a punchcard in a while, I think they're darn close.

        Doc
Received on Wed Jul 31 2002 - 13:30:01 BST