does any read punch cards anymore?

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:

> >From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
> >
> >On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >
> >> >Never had a problem with this.  Most of the problems I have are
> >cards that> >have not been stored appropriately and have bent or
> >otherwise deformed> >over time.  It's a bitch having to bend them
> >back flat (a process of> >bending with my hands, over my knee, and in
> >some cases when they just> >won't cooperate, whacking them repeatedly
> >over the edge of a table).>
> >>  You should use a steam iron.
> >
> >You mean on all 30,000 of them? :)
> >
> 
> Hi Sellam
>  Maybe one of those industrial steam irons used at the
> commercial laundries. I was thinking that you were
> dealing with them one at a time. For bulk, you might look
> into how the banks iron bills. They have some method
> that means they have some kind of machine to handle
> the problem. These machine must be making it to scrap
> dealers.
> Dwight
> 
A photographic print drier (the rolling drum type) might also be
feasible.

Still would be a headache for 30,000 cards, presumably which need to
stay in proper order and are unnumbered.