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No, it wasn't. The job was to keypunch the code the programmer needed yesterday. Are you really trying to tell somebody, who did do this work, how she did her job, when you clearly don't know the constraints of cards as a medium?

No, you program the drum card to do a left-justify zero fill. Or you convince your programmer to read a blank as a zero. That was always easier to proofread.

But you don't learn. You insist that the facts are wrong.

This doesn't proof anything. All this does it make the card human-readable (and sucky at that; I never did like the interpreter's output).

But you can't proof it!!! The second most important part of proofreading a deck is position of the character. No keypuncher ever counted characters. They used a listing and ID'ed those columns that didn't line up.

So did I. I even did this kind of work, which you obviously never did.

They were. The programmers could change the programs with TECO and no sequence numbers. The listings were CREFed.

I did a lot of that.

No. I was in a small shop and the programmers did not do their own keypunching if the code was more than a few lines. Programmers were men who had never touched a keyboard in their life. Thus, any lengthy typing was given to a girl who had learned how to touch-type.

We had one other piece that I think I only got to use once but I can't remember what it was....a merger..that doesn't sound right.

Just because you frequented the geographic area that had this equipment does not make you knowledgable of how the work was done in the most efficient way.

BAH