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"Damer: And, then also in the book you mentioned the card loader...

Ornstein: Oh yeah, the card reader.

Damer: ...where somebody actually ended up dumping their coffee down there.

Ornstein: A coffee cup went into the card reader and hung up development for days while IBM took it all
apart, cleaned it up, and put it back together.

Damer: And, then they had to invent the Plexiglas...

Ornstein: Yes, well the following week the console and the card reader, which was the main input to the
machine, was all surrounded by glass or Plexiglas and you could not get in there with a coffee cup."

(Oral History of Severo Ornstein, PDF)
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