Back in t’old days, when I were a young programmer, still getting to grips with punch-cards, we used to repair to t’pub at lunchtime. It was a good idea to buy a drink for the operators (we had OPERATORS back then!) for those who failed to do that, tended to find that a crucial punchcard would have dropped out of their program pack. We used to vie with each other to see who could imitate the sound of a dot matrix printer. We never seemed to tire of it. Perhaps the alcohol had something to do with that.
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