<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Those old GE card readers were wicked fast. The occasional card jams took a while to recover from since they would jam so many cards into a tiny space meant to hold a single card.<div><br></div><div>To tell the truth, I never noticed the sound level much because the line printers were so much louder.</div><div><br></div><div> - Rod<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 19, 2023, at 11:11 PM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paul -- you left out the other "feature" -- the noise, which was still deafening even with a model N1 and its cover. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif">It was indeed loud, but GE out-roared them with a blindingly fast card reader. The machine had a supposedly gentle touch; it grabbed cards with vacuum rather than tongs. But the make-and-break pneumatic explosions sounded like a machine gun. A noise meter I borrowed from the Labs' tool crib read 90db 6 feet away.</font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif">Doug</font></div></div>
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