[Klug-general] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Now here's a funny thing.
Mike Rentell
michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
Thu Mar 4 16:32:35 UTC 2010
On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:08:44 you wrote:
> On 4 March 2010 14:05, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> > H stands for Hollerith who invented punched cards (hands up whoever
> > remembers them) - me!
>
> Drat! My guess would have been punched cards but the 'H' clue threw me
> off!
>
> Oh well... :-)
>
> Ben
When I said it had 25 lines, actually it has 12 lines of space for 80 punch
holes with one line of space between each of them. So with a top space too it
added up to 25 lines. But you could only code 12 lines.
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