Re: Typing the lexicon(Shoebox history)

On 25 July, Roger Mills wrote:
<snip>
There was also a complicated
>system of cards with holes along the top and sides which you punched out
for
>the appropriate phoneme/morpheme etc.  To sort out, say, PAST, or PLURAL,
>you ran your wife's knitting needle thru the holes, and every card with
PAST
>or PLURAL etc. would fall out.  Who woulda thunk.
Tell me about it!  Way back in the days of the dinosaurs, I was expected
to organize my stuff that way! I used to rip the holes trying to
thread those stupid needles through! That era's equivalent,
I suppose, of crashing the system! :-)
(And we did our serious computing on _sliderules_ too!
I still have my deluxe model with the special scientific scales on it!
Used to know how to use them all too! :-)  )

Dan Sulani
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