Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don_from_AZ Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.editors,comp.text.pdf,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:28:23 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <87tt88qexk.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:28:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f5856c7b2441c64e89bd5c18b967ec9c"; logging-data="2401805"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18lH5HxhoZ8gBdDJn4YHIF2z4Br5jYz/Xg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DDL+9Dqy3bjBsERHDeQ1bRy9oho= sha1:rbBTdDyW08Q77640xE3nuSTCuyg= Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:17604 comp.editors:106732 comp.text.pdf:2643 alt.comp.os.windows-10:182772 Peter Flynn writes: > On 04/03/2025 15:23, Tim Slattery wrote: > [snip] >> A box of Hollerith (or IBM) cards held 2,000 cards. Each FORTRAN >> statement would go on a separate card, so 2,000 FORTRAN statements >> is right. And if you dropped your box and spilled your cards, good >> luck getting them back in the correct order! > > In my college, the computing centre had a card sorter, which was huge > and stood on cast-iron lion's feet which someone had painted gold :-) > But of course it only worked if your program statements or data lines > (cards) were numbered. You only drop a box of cards once. > > (You may hear the voice of experience there :-) > > Peter > I worked for Honeywell at a WWMMCCS site (World-Wide Military Command and Control System) at the Washington Navy Yard as a tech support guy. This was about 1973. I created new boot decks for the Honeywell 635 as needed, with new patch cards or new configurations. I was carrying a tray of punched cards to the computer room, one hand on each end of the card tray. I tried to hook the door handle with my little finger to pull it open and lost my grip on the tray; cards all over the floor! Embarrasing to say the least, and I didn't even try to put them back in order, just punched out a new deck. -- -Don_from_AZ-