RE: Re; QUSRTOOL (was IP PRINTING)

Neil,

You BURNED them?  How environmentally unaware!  They made such GOOD mulch!
Electricity can be created from decaying biomass, and the card chip mulch on
top helped it heat faster...

With tongue firmly planted in cheek,
Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

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From: neilp@dpslink.com [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]

Yes - we had to keep records because of the large inventory files on all the
computer cards we were consuming. 
Also, during the fossil fuel crisis in the 70's we would generate
electricity to power the computer by burning the card chips punched out of
the 80 column cards.  When IBM introduced the 96 column cards with the
little tiny round holes/chips, we could no longer generate enough
electricity to pay for the cost of the off duty fireman hired as a
precaution to stand between the burning card chips and the computer with a
fire hose (this was the first generation "firewall") so the practice was
eventually phased out. 

Neil Palmer      DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd. 
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Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net> 
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Neil Palmer wrote:

> 
> OK - sorry, maybe my definition of "very old stuff" and your
> definition differ a little.  I guess my definition is influenced by
> age (I'm not saying, but I have been working on Rochester "midrange"
> products since 1972).   

Gosh Neil, that was way back before electricity. I assume this means
you are much older than previously believed. According to the younger
list members, computers during the Jurassic period(70's) used fossil
fuel and actually consumed paper products(cards)....... Did people
actually keep records back then ????
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