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   billnechamen@gmail.com to hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com   
   Re: IBM 029 picture   
   07 Feb 15 10:28:08   
   
   On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 9:28:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > In the Winter 2014 Classic Trains, pg 44, there is a photo of a station   
   operator.  In the background there is an IBM 029 keypunch (maybe a 129).  The   
   caption says the picture is form the early 1980s, which is quite late for the   
   keypunch era; more were    
   replaced by key-disk machines by then.   
      
   I was in grad school in the early 1980s and we were still using keypunch   
   machines for some projects.   
      
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