[ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?]

[jdawgaz at cox.net]

yep. i did that too. sometimes i got lazy or really impudent (my code will work the first - er second - er third time) then I was stuck doing it the other way.!!!!

jerry
---- Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 7/1/07, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Rubber bands break. One other way of sequencing the cards (which I used),
> > was
> > writing the seqno on the back of the card in pencil. If you inserted a
> > card
> > somewhere, like seqno 30, just make it 30.1, if you delete a card, say
> > seqno
> > 22. On card 21, just write 22 deleted. That way you would know that you
> > weren't missing a card. This all worked for me.
> >
> > Then came line editors. GREAT!!!!
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > My friends and I always just numbered our cards by10's (e.g. 10, 20, 30,
> ...) or 100's.  We also had the habit of making major sections br number
> starting at 1000 or 10000 boundaries. It was a rare occasion this was not
> enough to let you add anything you might need without renumbering.
> -- 
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