=
cards or any other, is a matter of choice
for someone = Doctor Failla or someone to
sey,
“this is the way we'll do it.®
Largely, we'll go to the IBM puncher.
The IBM punch caré has eight
positions of data with trelve digits and
therefore we oan put 80 digits of inform
ation across the card and put in such
things as sample number, what machine it
was counted on3; we can put in the machine
geonetry and a whole array of data, dates,
times and so forth, °
.
We have contemplated a system that
will take up to one hundred factors all feeding into ohe simple punch station and, while
this may wind up with a lot of wires, we use
the telephone technique in the sence that we
have ten lines in this direction going from
nine to zero,
Each division comes in on a oross
bar so that this is the ten, this is the
hundred and this is the thousand,
Bo that
the number of machines that we can put on
are not limited by wires because it only
takes one wire to put on a great deal,
fhe same thing occurs in reading
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