-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2020 16.33, James Knott wrote:
On 2020-01-01 10:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Prior to tapes, sorting was usually done on punch cards. By the human?:-D
No, punch cards had been in use for decades before computers arrived, so there was a wide variety of equipment that worked with them, including collators, calculators and more. Back then an operator would set up the collator to do the necessary sorting.
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