On 2 Apr 2010 at 0:50, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Hardly -- but about as common as guillotines or
stitching machines,
though. I used to have one, and I made a couple of replacement drills
for one a friend had.
We'd frequently get documents that were copies of original manuals
and it wouldn't be uncommon for them to run to several hundred pages.
Rather than punching a few sheets at a time, we'd take them down to
the local printer and they'd drill them for 3-ring binder use for us
for a very small charge.
--Chuck