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