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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 392884" data-attributes="member: 13090">I remember going to Data Processing A-School back in my Navy days (back when "computing" was called data processing) and learning how to use 80-column punch cards and Hollerith code. The infernal Card Reader Punch Interpreter (affectionately known as the "crippy" as much for the letters comprising its name as for the fact it tended to jam if you so much as thought badly of it, which you pretty much always were. Always. Even while making love to your girlfriend. Yeah... Awkward is right) is a device I remain convinced to this day was conceived of, built and distributed by Satan himself or one of his immediate Lieutenants. No other explanation is sufficient to explain this nefarious bit of evil incarnate crafted in steel and thrust upon innocent young men in service to their country or why I have one installed in the spare bedroom of my home...You see, I like converting modern documents to Hollerith punch cards for fun and leisure. For a few years I converted both my Federal and State Tax Returns to punch cards and submit them in that format, just to mess with the Feds. For a long time my driver's license was comprised of just over 65,000 individual punched cards I kept in the trunk. Back then I'd speed through school zones, not just for the usual thrill of mowing down innocent children with my car like I do now, but also for the added fun of watching a police officer scratch his head as they tried to figure out what exactly to do with all those cards so he could run my license! Hahahahaha!!  Good times, good times indeed... ....</blockquote>

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