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In the 60s the person high on the food list was a "Systems Analyst" and there was true story about one of those guys.

It seems that our company had too many punch cards, I mean like warehouses full of them. We had just replaced our EAM equipment with computers running a TOS (tape Operating System) and really needed to get rid of all those cards. We tried burning them but they stuck together and using gasoline was expensive and the Chicago Fire Department discouraged using solvents. So we gave it to our Systems Analyst.

He studied the problem for 10 days and came back with 12 books of charts and instructions. They boiled down to this: Go card-to-tape with the cards and
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Burn the Tapes.

1/29/0410:34 AM

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