On 13 Jan 2005, at 20:46, Dennis Budd wrote: >I remember when to fix that punch card error I had to manually >duplicate the punch card on the ol' 026 keypunch up to the column of >the error, and then correct the error and duplicate the rest of the >punch card. Before the gavel ends the geriatric convention.... Frankfurt Army High Schools 1967/68 CS class had access to one on-base punch and got two or three trys per *week* to run on a CDC-160A located down town. Wire brush readers weren't too picky so I got extra debug runs in by carrying blank cards and an Xacto knife, so I could replace a bad (and typically really terse) fortran statement by cutting little triangles in a blank. "Eagles Uber Alles".