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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
Well I remember seeing them and using them, but I never saw how they
were used with a computer.  Actually when I was about 11, a person I
know worked at home and she used an IBM punch card machine.
> Dan, You don't remember punched cards?
>
> Even as late as the early 1970's, everyone in the U.S. got a
> punched card, at least one, in the mail every week.
Yes and I recall a very important check from Treasury came on one of
those too.
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> 				Janina Sajka, Director
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> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
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