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Re: Empiric studies on the impact of documentation

Subject: Re: Empiric studies on the impact of documentation
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:03:01 -0400

At that same time (around 1970-1975) the Digital Equipment PDP-8 cards were just slightly too large for some shirt pockets, and that was apparently the inspiration for the careful measurement. I avoided wearing shirts with too-small pockets. Another obscurity: One of those PDP-8 cards is memorable for its right-up-front spelling of "mneumonic" instead of mnemonic.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:47:40 -0400, <sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

I love this post for the obscure history, and because someone was brilliant enough to measure shirt pockets.

On Mar 26, 2019, at 1:39 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote (in part):

The pocket guides, by the way, were a direct copy in format from the similar and very popular cheat-cards produced a decade earlier by Teradyne. They were created by Teradyne's sole tech writer, Alexis Belash. Alexis went to the Brooks Brothers clothing store in Boston and measured the size of the pockets of men's shirts, so that the cards would fit in a pocket, unlike the huge IBM 360 Green Card (eventually the 370 Yellow Card). Prime's publication designer was a friend of Alexis.
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