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Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You had to empty the bit bucket once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Punch card chaff?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bingo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Never had the pleasure myself but my dad worked for a manufacturer of punch card machines and told me about a service call where he got the contractually minimum 4 hours pay for walking in, dumping out the bucket and leaving. They had been specifically asked whether the “chip bin full” light was on. It was.