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PSYCHORAPTURE, pt. 2 Crack the ******

This challenge can be found on the inside of the cover of issue 14.

Oh wow a Fortran punch card, that's really old school.

I used this helpful page from UIOWA to help me decipher it:

https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html

     ________________________________________________________________
    / -0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR/STUVWXYZ       .     $     ,
12 / O           OOOOOOOOO                        OOOOOO
11|   O                   OOOOOOOOO                     OOOOOO
 0|    O                           OOOOOOOOO      ?     ?     OOOOOO
 1|     O        O        O        O
 2|      O        O        O        O       O     ?     ?     O
 3|       O        O        O        O       O     O     O     O
 4|        O        O        O        O       O     O     O     O
 5|         O        O        O        O       O     O     O     O
 6|          O        O        O        O       O     O     O     O
 7|           O        O        O        O       O     O     O     O
 8|            O        O        O        O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 9|             O        O        O        O
  |__________________________________________________________________

11 and 12 are the two unmarked lines above the "0" line.