In 1963 I went to work for the brand new Columbus Plaza Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio . I worked the front desk and when people checked in, I took their info and keyed it into an IBM keypunch machine that spit out punch cards (I went to IBM Keypunch School)..all restaurants and vendors in the hotel had scaners that transfered transaction info to the front desk receivers and punched out cards that on checkout all transactions were included on their final bill....waaay back when
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