Pardon the waste of bandwidth, but the discussion on punched cards
brought back nerd memories.
I started out life as an operator on a Burroughs B2500. It read cards,
and punched cards, merged tape masterfiles and details, and had 100MB
fixed disk.

One of my fellow operators got married. We collected MILLIONS of punched
out rectangles, and used this as confetti. He got into trouble with the
minister for "littering" the church and grounds.

FOUR YEARS LATER, he and his wife still kept finding small overpunches
around the house, in the car, in clothes etc.

Nerdish, no?

Regards

Neil Harvey