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From: ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer horror stories (waffle cards)
Message-ID: <1795@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 00:21:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 00:21:16 1986
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> 
> I used to punch all the holes out of IBM cards, too.  The O29's made awful
> noises when duplicating them, they often jammed in the process.  I used
> to call my creations "waffle cards".  When dropped, they will flop back and
> forth, but nowhere as much as a new card. (I dug one out and tried it.)
> For some reason the card reader where I went to school accepted such a card
> as valid, and interpreted it as a card full of right (left?) parenthesis.

Actually you are lucky, duplicating cards with multi-puched holes in
them on IBM keypunch machines is likely to blow the printhead and
wedge the machine even if the print head was turned off.

-Ron