Punched cards - which paper/cardboard?

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, William Donzelli wrote: For many things, maybe. Remember embossed printing? The new stuff is not the same experience. It doesn't smell the same, sound the same, or make the same mess to clean up. VERY nice to have. Cards with rounded corners JAM LESS OFTEN. They wear better. Heavily used paperback books (K&R) will last a lot longer with rounded corners. There are absolute crap devices for hobby crafts. But they should be adequate to make a few cards to test. You used to be able to get a little "office" corner rounder for ~$100, that can handle less than 1/2" thick pile at a time. The plastic top work surface on some of them doesn't hold up well, and needs replacement in less than 20 years. http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=corner%20rounder&_fln=1&_ipg=200&a… On eBay, they start around $75, and real printshop ones cost MONEY. Yes. Definitely a task for a home made jig, or modified parts from a cheap table saw. Cheapest source still seems to be buying boxes of blank IBM cards. Apparently some people stocked up too heavily 30+ years ago, and there are still some colleges, etc. using them as blank stock for printing "add cards", etc. I had a good local source 10 years ago, but he's gone. It's pretty much the same as when a friend wanted the absolute cheapest source of 1 by planks to make a bookcase. The cheapest source was "buy a used bookcase and break it apart". -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com