X marks the deck (was Re: [OT] paper on Retro ?)

From: Steven M. Jones <smj_at_crash.com>
Date: Mon Oct 21 11:21:59 2002

> Who remembers drawing a cross or a diagonal line on the top of the card
> deck, so you had some chance of re-ordering the deck if someone dropped the
> box?

Not quite the same order of tragedy, but many may recall drawing X's across
the top end of the labels of (boxes of) 3.5" floppies full of, say, Retrospect
Remote backups of Mac Pluses. And in this case you _could_ use it for sorting
the inevitable shuffled deck...

Sigh. You can tell I never worked with cards - I sortof wish I could dig up a
reader and punch... It seems like it might be fun (so long as I can go back to
my nice X11 desktop the instant I get tired of it ;^)

--Steve.
Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 11:21:59 BST