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====== Pegged or Punched Cards ====== | ====== Pegged or Punched Cards ====== | ||
- | Possible references to pricked cards date back to //A manifest detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of diceplay//, n.d. (c. 1552), p. 33 of the 1850 edition. This anonymous pamphlet bears the initials of G. W., and is speculated to be Gilbert Walker. | + | Possible references to pricked cards date back to //A manifest detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of diceplay//, n.d. (c. 1552), p. 33 of the 1850 edition. This anonymous pamphlet bears the initials of G. W., and is speculated to be Gilbert Walker. |
- | Several hundred years later, using punched cards as a cheating method for crooked gamblers was described | + | Several hundred years later, using punched cards as a cheating method for crooked gamblers was described |
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