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Article #4969Re: You think you had it rough
From: da... David Elworthy
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 11:33
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 11:33
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In article <450...@hp-vcd.HP.COM> jo...@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes: ><<<< >< You had 029 keypunches? We had 026-ers, and had to ask the operator >< for our listings. And it was *always* hours later (except under special >< dispensation when a test was due). >---------- >Oh Yeah! We didn't even have keypunch machines. We each got a one hole >punch and and a map showing the codes. And cards? We had to take the >used ones and glue the chad back in ..and..and.. O never mind. > >John Eaton >!hpvcfs1!johne Had a punch, did you? You were lucky. We had to use a trained gerbil which bit the hole in the card when you pulled its tail. (Course, later we got several in parallel and hammers to beat them with.) -- david elworthy
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!news From: da...@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You think you had it rough Message-ID: <1990Oct4.113351.9311@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 4 Oct 90 11:33:51 GMT References: <1990Oct2.123010.6371@mozart.amd.com> <450003@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Reply-To: da...@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy) Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 18 Posted: Thu Oct 4 12:33:51 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit