[geeks] Software Bloat

[Ken Hansen]

BZZTTT!

One line per card! Yes, it's true!

Each column had one or more sets of holes punched, which when viewed
together along a vertical line (column) were arranged in a pattern that was
EBCDIC ("ebb see dick").

Trick question, how many grooves on a record, given that the record has an
outside diameter of 12 inches (let's say) and the music stops at 2 1/2
inches out from the center? Further, the disc travels at 33 1/3 RPM, and it
takes 24 minutes from start to finish?

Anyone?

This is per side...

Ken ;^)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Software Bloat


> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:43:05PM -0500, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Line numbers!
> >
> > See, if you had a tray of cards, and you happened to notice a very cute
> > "operator" and walked into the wall (looking at her instead of where you
are
> > going), the cards go everywhere!
>
> Interesting.  I knew that the cards were usually numbered, but I thought
that
> meant one number per card, rather than every line.
>
> Punch cards were something else I've never used.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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