1 Jan
2020
1 Jan
'20
15:33
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org