[Political Junkie Too]

I used Hollerith cards, where you backed up the card and punched it again. Good ole EBCDIC.

-PJ

[gleeaikin]

Thanks Sunken Civ for bringing back these memories.

PJT: I don’t know about Hollerith cards, but In the 1960s I was working for a Congressman. I remember using Punch Cards to send out multiple identical messages. I would type in the address, then press a button and the typewriter would run through the punched card like it was a Player Piano (another old one), after which we folded letter and mailed it. Around the same time I worked for a researcher and produced charts and graphs using a Leroy Lettering Set. I was going through my mothers old boxes from the 1920s and found her Dance Cards, listing people she promised to dance with those nights.

XEHRoa - we had an old hand crank Victrola and listed to my mother’s Caruso records (78s).
Slip18 - When I was a young child we had an 8 person Party Line, then 4 people, 2 people, and finally our own personal phone line.
Lizaretta - About 15 years ago an assistant to our black Mayor lost his $100,000+ a year job because he used the word “niggardly” referring to a stingy person.

firebrand - many memories from WW2, collecting foil from gum wrappers and cigarette pack liners, stomping tin cans for scrap drives, delivering fat to the butcher for nitroglycerine, and having a large Victory Garden.