[TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Wed Mar 23 16:49:19 AEST 2016


On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 12:28:41 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>> Walking down the corridors of Comp Sci, a student in front of me
>>> dropped his entire deck of approx 2000 cards, all over the floor... I
>>> have no idea whether he got them sorted, but I sure as hell used
>>> rubber bands after that!
>>
>> But that's what the sequence numbers in columns 73 to 80 are for!
>
> Yeah, but it would have cost him too much beer to bribe the comp ops
> into sorting them...

They used to have big, mechanical machines for sorting cards.  What
did they call them?  Collators?

Greg
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