Re: Odd/Even packed numbers. -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 20:20:22 -0600
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From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com>
> (zoned & signed goes back to the days of punch cards.  A column punch was
> zoned" if the top three rows had a punch

indeed it was something like that, but "signed"? Why is zoned called
"signed"?
(as I learned today :-)

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