TRACY PIERCE wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >And *power* geeks learned to program the drum card on the keypunch
> >machine to autonumber the cards!
> </snip>
> When I was ~10 years old & goofing around with programming keypunch drum
> cards while my dad was tearing his hair over 407 panels, I had an 024
> keypunch auto-numbering the cards.  I showed him this, he SAW it
> happening until the hopper was empty.  He didn't believe it even though
> he was watching it; I couldn't make it happen again.  His 'impossible'
> declaration was discouraging, so I gave up.  He'll get a kick out of this
> though.  Thanks for acknowledging that it CAN (or could) be done.
>
> Tearing out his hair over 407 panels?  Duck soup.  The 046 (paper tape
to card converter) was the REAL challenge.

Nick D.