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From: "Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Use of open office.
Perhaps the have a Jacquard loom in the back room or one of the left over
from the Gestapo Hollerith card readers. ;->
Allen
Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:15:59 -0600
"Troll/Idiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also, that many cards might be expensive.
They seem to go pretty cheap on Ebay.
I still haven't figured out why anyone would want a stack of punchcards.
*shudder*
Shudder - right. My first computer job was to "type" up data on punch
cards.
Never, ever drop them.
Thank the powers that be that most computer user today have never
been exposed to those horrorable pieces of card stock. Also having
a room size clanking and clattering devices to use them, was bad for
the ears. Working with roomsize computers with less power than my laptop
was not fun either.
The only reason to have punch cards is to show off how bad it use to
be to program a computer.
You can find most anything on EBay these days. I even see people trying to
sell non-working hard drives or monitors - fixer uppers that no regular
computer person can fix. Oh well, a sucker born, is a sucker fleeced.
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