ebay - cardamatic

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Feb 15 17:33:43 2005

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, William Donzelli wrote:

> The nice thing about cards, and their use today (as we play with old
> machines) is that unlike paper tape, you can have a print shop make up
> cards fairly easily, even with the index chop. The only thing that would
> be "faked" would be the nice rounded corners. I think most card handling
> machines would not care too much if the corners were chamfered or
> filleted (sp?).

I imagine the corners were rounded to avoid jamming as they were fed into
the reader mechanism?

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