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Hi Ian,

Come and visit Holland some time... The (usually antique) Dutch street
organs that fill the shopping streets with loud music are programmed by
punched cards still. They apparently still make these, as you can
sometimes hear quite modern top40 stuff from them.

Flip


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[..]
'Fixed format' is a hangover from the days of punched cards and like
them should be consigned to a museum (I haven't seen a punched card for
20 years & there must be plenty of people around who've never seen
one!).  [...]

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