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Seeing that form reminds me that MANY years ago, I used to punch cards 
a hand punch with numbered keys. To avoid repunching a whole card, we 
used to correct some errors by filling the holes in a card column by 
pressing chads back into them before repuncing the column. It was 
Fortran done the hard way.


Van Snyder wrote:
> Did you ever wonder where the 80x24 format for glass TTY came from?
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/FortranCodingForm.png
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