From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Date: 1996/11/09 Message-ID: <563kdi$l8d@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195607321 references: <55955a$n04@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <55mcmd$63c@krusty.irvine.com> <55p9dp$n0p$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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