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Re: re: reminiscing about card punches

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From: jcmo... Joe Morris
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 21:33
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In a recent article jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones) writes:
>I collect punched cards, preferably unpunched with corporate,
>university or other organizational logos on them.  I will gladly exchange
>cards for cards of equal quality and number.  I have a stock of cards with
>various Bell Labs logos from the early 1970's and prior, as well as a
>smaller stock of Carnegie-Mellon cards.
>
>Since you can't e-mail cards, send them to:

  Who says you can't e-mail cards?  Many years ago we  tested the
  analytical abilities of new operators by telling them to read
  several boxes of blank cards and put the resulting data on tape.
  That way if we ran short of blank cards we could just punch off
  a couple of boxes.  It was scary how many operators never questioned
  the assignment...

Joe Morris
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From: jcmo...@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Re: re: reminiscing about card punches
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Date: 10 Oct 90 21:33:57 GMT
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