tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620310760455985437.post8203611723444196919..comments2008-04-28T13:58:59.487-07:00Comments on What's New is Old, a Slurpcast.: Punch CardsWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05516719149074777442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620310760455985437.post-6728345007642114282008-04-28T13:58:00.000-07:002008-04-28T13:58:00.000-07:00My favorite punched card story: I worked for Gener...My favorite punched card story: I worked for General Electric about 1980. Engineers did not trust magnetic tapes, so they liked there data kept as punched cards that they could keep under their desks. These boxes of fine paper cards were kept in boxes about 2 feet long. <BR/><BR/>It happened that thousands of dollars worth of nuclear reactor design data were lost because the engineer knocked over his coffee and it spilled into his card deck. Warped cards cannot be read. <BR/><BR/>Happily, I later sold many boxes of those cards to the scrap paper dealer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com