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83457
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The last person standing in the floppy disk busine...
My mom has many boxes from her long career programming for mainframes. She uses them for todo lists... for herself now, not a computer.
grogenaut
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Bar I worked at in the late 90s did all their checks and orders on these. Guy who worked there par tike worked dismantling mainframes and had tons of them. Cheaper than any other paper they could find.
83457
on Sept 14, 2022
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Nice. Not the cheapest if bought from IBM is my understanding.
taftster
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Or maybe she is the computer now.
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