OLD DAYS

[Janina Sajka]

Dan, You don't remember punched cards?

Even as late as the early 1970's, everyone in the U.S. got a
punched card, at least one, in the mail every week. Our phone
bills came with punched cards that had to be returned in order
that our remittances would be credited to our account properly.

Have we so soon forgotten that ostensibly immortal refrain of the
60's:

Do not bend, fold, staple, or mutilate ...

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Well I don't remember punch cards but we used paper tape extensively
> with our teletype on a time sharing system, and it was all basic in
> those days.
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote:
> 
> > hI,
> > i REMEMBER bitnET AND RELAY (RAN ON TOP OF RSCS).  i ALSO REMEMBER PAPER
> > TAPE AND PUNCH CARDS.
> <snip>
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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