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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

Norman Nescio Silver badge

Re: Times change

Which is why operators (or other people with appropriate access) would use a marker pen and draw a diagonal line across the top of the deck. This made reconstituting a dropped deck a great deal simpler.

If the punched cards had sequence numbers, there did exist machines for automatically reordering messed-up stacks.

The illustration in this Wikipedia article on the use of punched cards in programming shows an example of the diagonal line.

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