On my punch cards they did. Every card had a number sequential to the sequence. The punch we used inserted them automatically. Well, the programming card did. The reference number used for calls may have been different, but I don't remember it. Our programs were HUGE, multiple trays. Each tray was denoted by the color of the diagonal line. We had 8 colors, so I guess we never had more than 8 trays, because I don't remember pairs of lines anywhere. Regards, Les H On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:27 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Les wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:36 -0700, Richard England wrote: > >> Try dropping two trays , each about 2.5 feet long. They did that to me > >> in the data center when I was in grad school. Luckily I had just > >> printed they contents out and resequenced them. The manager of the data > >> center had a cow when I told the staff to put the deck back together, > >> but my advisor (bless him) stood behind me and insisted that if they had > >> taken due care it wouldn't have happened. > >> > >> Ah cards, loved 'em (not). And drum cards. Boy there was an arcane art! > >> > >> ~~R > >> > > Did you have the diagonal line drawn on the top to help? > > > > If they were Fortran, or COBOL, you could always sort on the line > > number. I don't remember the other languages having line numbers. > > > > Regards, > > Les H > > > Are you sure about Fortran and COBOL having line numbers? I didn't > use COBOL enough to remember any more, but I remember only using > line numbers or labels in FORTRAN if they were the target of a > branching instruction. > > Mikkel > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
