Slightly younger than the punch card era, but one bit of "old" tech I don't miss is the line printer. We had one in an office with a nylon carpet, and you'd approach that thing with utter dread because some combination of the action of the paper spewing out at speed, the metal guide bars for the ejected paper, and that bloody carpet meant that collecting a printout gave you an even chance of a massive static electricity shock.
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