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On 15/05/2014 01:15, Gary Herron wrote:
>
> Which is a relic of the even older punch cards which contained one line
> of (up to) 80 characters.
>
> Gary Herron
>

I still remember the cry of anguish when the guy in the computer 
building at (the then) Portsmouth Polytechnic dropped his cardboard box 
of punch cards that made up his end of course project.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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