From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!mkg
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: The end of an era
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.1024
Posted: Thu Mar 10 15:47:20 1983
Received: Fri Mar 11 05:13:30 1983

I just received a information bulletin from one of BTL's largest IBM
comp centers that I'd like to share.  With little (no?) fanfare,
they announced that card reader and punch services will no longer
be available.  For the diehards who just have to use cards, they
said the card readers on a few 3777 rje stations would be available.

While the closest to punched cards some of the newest readers of the
net will come is the one that comes with their phone bill, I'm sure
that this news produces a tinge of nostalgia in those of us who have
had the good? fortune to experience program development at the keypunch.
  Marsh Gosnell  BTL Whippany