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May 1999, Week 3

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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 May 1999 11:00:45 GMT
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Brian Duncombe ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: But then I have been amused on many occasions watching "intelligent" people
: try to sort a deck of cards.  It is apparently counter-intuitive

Sort on a card sorter?  It wasn't that hard.  Two passes for alphanumeric.
Sort on least significant column first.

[log in to unmask]    Don Seay at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions
>And *power* geeks learned to program the drum card on the keypunch
>machine to autonumber the cards!

I knew how to program the drum, but ours only had left zero fill.  :-(

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