On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 17:49 +0000, John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> How many of the XSL list have ever handled a deck of
> (computer/Hollerith) cards? Some of us are showing our age....

Quite a few of us proably. Don't forget to make a diagonal line on the
side so you can see if one is out of place after you drop them :)

At one point there was a limit of 72 characters on the length of a URL
which came from 80-column punched cards and the requirement the URL fit
into a single line for an HTTP GET request.

Liam

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