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   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
      
   > In high school (Lockport IL around 1973) we used teletypes to write   
   > BASIC code and then save it to paper tape.   
   >   
   [...]   
   >   
   > Some wags would collect the paper tape dots and put them in the   
   > room's heater, where they would spray out when teach turned on the   
   > heat..   
   >   
      
   We would put those paper tape dots (chads) into somebody's umbrella   
   and refurl it.  When they came to open the umbrella for use they'd get a   
   small snowstorm of chads on themselves.   
      
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