"Let me check my card file for a joke about your condition".
The form of "Die" was inspired by an index card file, the gallery said.
The New Yorker, September 26 , 1994P. 95 CARD FILE showing baseball trading cards with George Steinbrenner, principal owner, N.Y.
By Mark Ulriksen The New Yorker, September 26 , 1994P. 95 CARD FILE showing baseball trading cards with George Steinbrenner, principal owner, N.Y.
Reading several newspapers a day, he culled his information entirely from published sources, keeping track of the articles with a card file that eventually held over 12,000 cards.
Every time one of these guys was arrested I made a card file for each of the people who was named in the trial.
The reading room of Cuba's National Archive is normally a place of monastic calm, where academics and researchers leaf through aged volumes among card files and dusty stacks.
Software packages can help enormously (see our software reviews, page 88) but a card file system is fine, so long as you keep on top of it.
This week, a box of eight-year-old credit card files thudded into public view, apparently intended as evidence or reminder of Mr. Giuliani's complicated personal life.
Tells how various libraries, including the New York Public Library, Harvard, and others, have discarded their index card files and replaced them with inferior on-line systems.
