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From: bentson@csu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Magnetic bank cards
Message-ID: <2242@csu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 16:13:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  5 16:13:15 1983
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I once worked at a firm that used magnetically encoded cards to
gain access to the computer room. (The cards also had the
typically unflattering photographs on them.) Anyway, as the
story goes, one of the service technicians was working on a
disk drive. He found the card than was clipped to his shirt
pocket was getting in the way, so he took it off and set
it down (ON THE HEAD MOTION ACTUATOR!). Needless to say,
when he went out for some parts, he couldn't reenter.

My officemate also found that a bulk tape eraser also
does wonders on the card.

Randy Bentson
Colo State U - Comp Sci
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303/491-7016