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Originally posted by legion
stevepaa, that would be infuriating to me. Could we make the argument that the demise of punch cards has led to the establishment of today's "instant gratification" society?

My parents used to tell me that a common prank at their university was to "shuffle someone's cards" when they weren't around.
Goes along with the trend for "I want it now".

Simply removing one card would do the trick, but every engineer just knew that to touch another's card deck stack/box was next to sacreligious.
Old 03-30-2005, 09:37 AM
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