Job Control Card, This punch card would be placed at the beginning of a deck of cards to tell the card reader how to execute the program contained in the rest of the deck. This one controls the PUFFT system (Purdue University Fast Fortran Translator), and was ingested by the IBM 7094 -- the main computer for Imperial College, London. The Pentium PC on my desk is 27 times faster.

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