Talk:Lace card

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Can the cleanup of the article be as simple as correcting the ugly grammar, subject inconsistencies, and lack of clarity? Also, looks like the content of the article was either taken from here, or maybe was copied to there. A more complete definition of lace card can be found here Dividingbyzero (talk) 22:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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i don't understand the article. Was this a sort of attack on a computer? would it be put in my malicious people in order to jam the machine and cause it to misfunction, or did it serve a specific purpose? i see that the modern equivalent would be a black fax, which I would consider to be malicious, however this article makes it seem like it would occur more by accident or by people who did not know it would cause a jam... -aliencam (talk) 01:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I assume it was usually an in-house prank, directed by one specific individual against another specific individual, and not any kind of attempt at serious economic vandalism or industrial sabotage. It would be hard to create a lace card by accident, and it would not serve any legitimate purpose according to the usual way of punching cards to repreresent information (see Punch_card#IBM 80 column punch card format). AnonMoos (talk) 22:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)