Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They also announced that a new, experimental copy card system would be installed to smooth the transition to the ten-cent copy-but, drumroll, only in the Anthropology Department's Tozzer Library. As for the other, more popular xeroxing sites on campus--Hilles, Lamont, and Widener--save your dimes...
...vintage Harvard, where frugality and caution are routinely carried to excess. The University's refusal to install the more efficient and time-saving copy card system in its major libraries is, after all, typical of an institution which has a $3 billion endowment and charges over $10,000 in tuition, yet nonetheless claims that it cannot afford to keep Widener open on Sunday and has spent years deciding whether carpetting Lamont Library would break its piggy bank...
Even when clearly warranted, improvements require endless deliberation and delay. Putting copy card readers only in the little-used Tozzer Library is a case in point...
...copy card system--in which people insert a card with photocopy credit on it into the copier in place of coins--is clearly warranted, especially in light of the price hike. In exchange for the 100 percent increase in cost, users deserve something in return. Why not eliminate the need to drop a dime into the machine before making each copy...
Jeff: Yeah. I write them on a three-by-five card and tape them to the back of the puppet...