Dinosaur Sightings 2

I'm quite old and my story in the IT world goes back ten years before this IBM 082 machine was built in 1982. This photo shows a newer version of the machine on which I started my IT career. It is one of the first sorting algorithms. The machine would put a deck of punched cards (as big as you want) in a specified order. What we now call a sort was a long process, passing the full card deck one time through that machine for each column of the field that was the ordering key (twice if the order was alphanumeric).