[GreenKeys] Purpose of word counter?

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

>No I was asking about the thing that looks like a clock face on the M19.
That is definitely a character counter, useful for detecting when a line of punch characters was approaching the max number of characters for a line.  That way you could punch tape while the printer was banging away with something else.
WayneWB4OGM


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