Reading ancient paper digital media (was Re: Hamurabi Focal source)

My father used to do a lot of consulting with CBS on Social Science Research. IBM was an active participant; sometimes TOO active. IBM did the entire computer work for the CBS "National Driver's Test" (1965?). When the live percentages didn't add up to 100%, on the TV, I could see my father sitting behind Walter Cronkite, frantically recomputing the numbers in time for Cronkite to read them. The next morning, my father, my brother, and I began studying FORTRAN. For one of the CBS studies, they actually distributed port-a-punch ("Hanging Chad") cards, and had the respondents drop them in a mailbox! IBM did "something" with one of their card readers (slow-down?, enlarge the in-gate?) and successfully read almost all of the cards! I wish that I could have seen that! -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com