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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <15216@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 16:17:29 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 15 16:17:29 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 19:05:54 EST
References: <2319@sunybcs.UUCP> <1596@kitty.UUCP> <902@aecom.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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Keywords: early computers, trivia, humor

In article <902@aecom.UUCP> naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger) writes:
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>We had a program that would punch all the holes in a stack of cards.
>The little punchouts made for fine confetti at a variety of celebrations.
>Of course, the name of the program was "mulch."

Only if you don't like the people it got thrown on - that chad has
*sharp* corners.  But there were many uses for the punched-out cards:

I used to have a deck of them sitting on my desk (with normal-looking
cards on the faces) waiting for someone to pick it up.  Someone old enough
to have worked with cards was always startled that the deck was about
half the weight they were expecting.

At Brock University, some students taped the punched-out cards into
strips and hung them as curtains for their office windows.