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011 card punch (was: Batch Turnaround Time)

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From: ick... Werner Icking
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 08:30
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jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
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>And yes, all the cards I punched at Bell Labs were punched on O29 punches.

In my office I have still an IBM 011 card punch and a very special one with
a 110V to 220V converter, because it was used in germany. I found this very
heavy thing one day in the garbage. The only thing I had to replace was the
power cable. It works up to now - but where is the next card reader!
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Werner Icking          ick...@gmdzi.gmd.de          (+49 2241) 14-2443
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH (GMD)
Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRGermany
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From: ick...@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking)
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Subject: 011 card punch (was: Batch Turnaround Time)
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Date: 4 Oct 90 08:30:28 GMT
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