Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> I have the "Write It Once" version of the ruler, which I got when I worked
> at Burroughs in 1978. It has the Burroughs logo printed on one side, the
> "Write It Once" logo on the other. Mine is 18" (the ruler, I mean)
>
>
> At 06:41 PM 2/27/2002 -0400, Gary Nolan wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I have the Moore Business Forms version of this ruler, had it since 1980 and
> >you had to really beg a salesman to get one. I even remember the salesman's
> >name Harold Smith. My steel ruler has survived many battle against the
> >inferior aluminium version, and has been through 4 different companies with
> >me.
> >
> >Gary Nolan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Eric H. Sand" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:25 PM
> >Subject: [HP3000-L] fun contest - oldest relic you have
> >
> >
> > > Well, the oldest computer relic I have is a 1969 Standard Register Company
> > > 15" stainless steel ruler for marking up 132 column report outlines. There
> > > is an edge for calculating the number of cards per inch(150) and one for
> > > calculating the number of lines down a page(6 per inch) as well.
> > > Indispensable in its day it was. There was one in every pallet of
> green-bar
> > > that arrived in receiving and one day I was at the right place at the
> right
> > > time.. Still use it every day, but the 80 column cards are getting hard to
> > > find.
> > >
> > > Trivia question...There are thirty(30) 3/16th inch holes along one edge of
> > > this "ruler", two(2) 5/16th holes along the other edge aligned at one end,
> > > and two(2) 7/16th holes along the same edge but at the other end. What
> were
> > > these used for?
The punch holes you're referring to were used when a sales rep was
designing a form with the ruler. The 3/16" holes were used to draw
pinfeed holes down the side of the forms (on computer forms that were
fed in to a line printer on a continuous form). The other two sets of
punch holes were for file punch holes the customer wanted punched in
their forms allowing them to use binders with two hole posts. Also in
many cases the larger holes were used to draw punch holes to be used
in register machines.
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric Sand
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
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> --------------------------------
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 313 N. 1st Street
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> http://www.northtech.com/
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