From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book)
Date: 1996/11/09
Date: 1996-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <563kdi$l8d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: RALW.96Nov8143820@vulcan.gecm.com
In article <RALW.96Nov8143820@vulcan.gecm.com>,
<bill.williams@gecm.com> wrote:
>I'm feeling pretty ancient today as well. When I was young and foolish
>we had hand card punches - a button, attached to a blade for each
>row on the card. This gives you two reasons for not using lower case:
>first the printer won't print it anyway, and second your fingers get
>tied (even more :-) trying to punch the right code.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, and many other places in the US,
we use a voting system that uses hand-powered card punches very
similar to the ones you remember. Move the pointer to the column
you want, press down on the lever, presto - a hole in a punch card!
These things are quite inexpensive, and make it much faster to vote.
Before they switched to this system, a polling place had 2-4 big
voting booths with big machines in them. Now my polling place has
about 20 little booths with the card punches. No more queues!
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-26 0:00 Looking for good Ada95 book Lars Lundgren
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rapicault Pascal
[not found] ` <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org>
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Mark Shaw
1996-11-06 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Adam Beneschan
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1996-11-08 0:00 ` bill.williams
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Michael Feldman
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Capitalization Entropy (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Scott James
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard Pattis
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Do-While Jones
1996-11-20 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21 0:00 ` FerretWoman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Testing teaching belief? Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Tom Pastuszak
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
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