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[Fred Cisin]

>> But wouldn't a nice tape be a much more appropriate distribution
>> medium?

On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> For the record, I have no intention of creating these "more appropriate"
> distribution media for anyone.

OK, we'll cancel the project of getting you a farm of ultra-durable card 
punches.  :-)
It was already looking as though there might be difficulty locating 2 
million boxes of blank punch cards. (288G)   Per copy.

Even the just over a million 8" SSSD floppies were back-ordered.

And paper tape would have required opening a new factory.


. . . and we'd have had to build up a fleet of station wagons to hurtle 
down the highway.