I believe when I was at P&H Mining, our card reader/punch was finally 
disconnected when we moved the datacenter in 1994.  I don't think it was used 
much the last few years.

I can remember during probably the late 80's, having a problem with the card 
punch.  After about 3 or 4 days with the punch being down, the factory was 
starting to run out of work.  They couldn't punch out picking tickets for parts 
or labor tickets.  We had a 3rd party vendor servicing the punch, and they had 
to pay IBM to come in and finally fix it.

--
Eric Bielefeld
Systems Programmer


---- Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote: 
> Wondering when the last card reader died. We had one at University of 
> Waterloo until 1984 or 1985; we had a full professor who insisted on using 
> cards. We finally told him he'd have to pay the maintenance-that convinced 
> him (or, more likely, his Dean) that it was time to use terminals.
> 
> What's the latest anyone remembers using a card reader?
> 
> BTW, http://www.cardamation.com/punchcardmedia.html claims to still sell 
> them, if you need an 80-byte fix!
> --
> ...phsiii

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