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Marcus,<br>
Quite true... and while it was well before my time, I was told a
story that TRNSYS almost got lost before it was ever public. A
certain graduate student whose identity I will protect was tipped
off to draw a diagonal line along the top of the deck when all the
cards were stacked in a box so that if ever they got out of order,
it would be easier to put them back in order. And a good thing that
he took the advice because he slipped on ice and dropped the box on
the way to the mainframe with some simulation or other. The cards
went everywhere and were it not for that diagonal line, he says he
would have given up on the PhD and done something else altogether.<br>
<br>
I don't know if those cards still exist but you're right, it would
be nice to have a collection of them!<br>
Best,<br>
David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/10/2013 09:20, Marcus wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAEzj1z63M-qTwmccM2FMw6_TfFsrEPaeTcXWwGN0wr7w34=pDA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi TRNSYS history buffs;<br>
<br>
I'm finishing up a SimBuild paper, and was hoping to include a
sentence on the history of TRNSYS. I've always assumed that the
.DCK deck file is so named because it was literally a deck of
punch cards for Fortran, back in the good ol' days. Just want to
confirm before I write it up. And if anyone has one of these
cards, it's worth a beer at Simbuild ;)<br>
<br>
Marcus<br>
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