[Simh] Question about card readers.

[Clem Cole]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> I agree.  If this whole discussion is about if a simulated card reader
> device
> interface should try to magically correct for garbage input (i.e. lines
> longer
> than card images), then I suggest that the best simulation is to behave as
> closely to how real systems worked.
>

​The question of what real systems did is open.  IIRC TSS as a system read
in all 80 columns, ​but as was pointed out the FTN compiler ignored them.
But not all of them did.   I still have the algol-w compiler source around
somewhere in PL/360 -- which might give you a hint
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