> > with the Data cards being the message we wanted printed.  Each letter in the
> > banner would
> > print in a 5x7 matrix using the same letter for each dot.  So, the letter A
> > would print with
> > letter "A"s, the B would print with the letter "B", etc.
> 
> There's a coincidence - I wrote a program to do this in Fortran, in about 1975!  I was an operator on an IBM 

OK. I'll admit that I did this in BASIC sometime in that time-frame. However,
we had a teletype (110 baud) rather than cards.
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