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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by CliffStoll on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:11PM (#32826233)
I've got a couple boxes of 80-column punch cards ...
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by 83457 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:17PM (#32826340)
My mom has many boxes from her long career programming for mainframes. She uses them for todo lists... for herself now, not a computer.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by grogenaut on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:27PM (#32826472)
Bar I worked at in the late 90s did all their checks and orders on these. Guy who worked there par tike worked dismantling mainframes and had tons of them. Cheaper than any other paper they could find.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by 83457 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:20AM (#32836121)
Nice. Not the cheapest if bought from IBM is my understanding.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by taftster on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:49PM (#32826820)
Or maybe she is the computer now.
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