On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Years ago, in the book "Steal this
Book", Abbie Hoffman
suggested that anytime you end up with a punch card, in
order to be a troublemaker, soak the card in some solution
that, once the card is dried, has cause it to shrink
uniformly so that it will jam the reader.
As you can see, he wasn't much of a "fan" of "the system".
Why not just punch some extra holes in it?
/* was quite useful with 360 JCL
Hmmm... that sounds familiar, he may have
suggested that as an alternative method,
using a razor blade... he'd have been
pretty clueless about a keypunch, I think
(although he started as a suit-and-tie guy).
-dq