What are these IBM 'thingys'

[William Donzelli]

> As a matter of fact, I asked him what those were called a few months
> before he died in 1987.  He couldn't remember for sure, but thought that
> it was something like "Royal McBee" (If I'm remembering correctly what he
> said).  He said that calling them "edge-sort" should usually work.

Yes, Royal McBee. I think I have a box or two of those things.

There is a good book called Punched Cards (or something similar) from
the 1940s or 50s that goes over all of the systems used before
computers came about. Highly recommended.

--
Will