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As an early day "hacker" in college, me and a few buddies took a card
and punched every hole out, then reproduced that card till we had a few
decks, then put one deck in the keypunch machine to reproduce, another
deck in each sorting machine and each printer in the room. Started them
all and boy did that make some sounds as those machines danced around
the room. The computer science professor soon arrived to stop the stress
test of the machines. ;-)
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Those old keypunch machines had a limitation: they weren't supposed to
be used to duplicate more than 6 punches in any column, else the knives
would jame and cause serious problems. IIRC it was somethng to do with
the power supplies to the knives.
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Rick
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