JeffR wrote:
My job in college was to monitor the card reader, to make sure no one put their cards in upside down, and to help them pick their cards up when they dropped their stack, which happened several times a day. Easy money. The downside was that the reader was in the same room as the line printer, which was deafening. Had to wear earplugs.
What was fun to watch was the people who loaded the card reader/punch with their decks, waiting for the printer to finish, and saw PUNCH...PUNCH...PUNCH... coming out on the printer.
some were not.