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[amourdutigre]

Check out this item on eBay - I wish I had the money to buy it. Mint
condition! What a find.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280297753368

My very first computer programing experiance was on just one of those keypunch units, only it was a very ratty on compared to this brand new in the box unit. I was learning fortran 4 at the University of Missouri in the summer of 1980, the year St Helens blew her stack. Never will I forget that time in my life. Had a blast. The key punch room was on one side of the campus, the card reader facility was somewhere else, and the line printer was at yet a third location. At the start of the session, we had to buy the text book, three cases of cards, and a box of wide rubber bands.

I was all of sixteen at the time, and discovered a whole lot more than the joys of computer programming. ;-)

I have a funny hunch that the seller of this keypunch will not get what they want for it. 

Best and 73,

Joe KB0TXC
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