From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> Cited in George Dyson's wonderful _Darwin Among the Machines_:
>
> The peak year for punched-card use in the US was 1967.
>
> 200 billion cards.
>
> That's 500,000 TONS of cards.
>

I ran about that amount through 083 sorters and 1404 IBM card readers (
Punch Feed Read still sucks ) way back then.  That was still better than
hundereds of teletypes spewing tape, splicing messages etc. I really
appreciate modern computing

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