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[William Donzelli]

> Trick question!  The IBM interpreters (552,557) could print only 60
> columns across a card, because of the width of the characters.  So if
> you were doing all 80 columns, you got two rows of characters.  Some
> cards were printed with either a single 60 column legend across the
> top or with 60/20 columns in 2 rows.  Locating the actual column when
> looking at the interpreter output without one of the 60 column
> printed legends was "interesting".

Ah yes, I forgot that 557s could not do all 80 columns. Considering I
have two of those things you would think I would know...

--
Will