Talk:Punched card sorter

radix or bin sort?

Sorting least significant column first, then next, ... is a radix sort. Bin sorting is sorting the most significant column first, then the next most significant for each bin (you have to keep the bins separate), then .... See the description of Postman's sort in the Bin Sort article for a description of radix sorting, also look at the radix sort article. Thanks. 69.106.232.37 00:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Change name

I'm inclined to rename this article IBM punched card sorters because it really covers all of them. Any objections?--agr (talk) 00:42, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

• support We don't need multiple articles on IBM sorters yet. - Glrx (talk) 18:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Pacific Northwest Bell

A new 084 sorter was installed at Pacific Northwest Bell in Seattle on May 1, 1963, so I suspect that 1963 may have been the year that the 084 was introduced. Sorting punched cards that represented toll calls was a large project each day. The 084 greatly helped the process. GQuickstad (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2014 (UTC)