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Level: 30
Requires level: 25
Type: Dungeon
Side: Both
Start: Master Mechanic Castpipe
End: Master Mechanic Castpipe
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Series

1.	Castpipe's Task
2.	Data Rescue

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Data Rescue

Bring a Prismatic Punch Card to Master Mechanic Castpipe in Ironforge.

	Prismatic Punch Card

Description

When we fled Gnomeregan, we left so much data behind! Vitally important data!

I need the data on a prismatic punch card, from a Matrix Punchograph 3005-D high security terminal, deep in Gnomeregan. You must access the terminal, but to do that you first need clearance... and to get that you must access lower security terminals-- models -A, -B and -C. And to do THAT you need security punch cards, starting with white... and we left all the punch cards in the city.

It's a catastrophe! Can you help?

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Reward

You will receive:

	Repairman's Cape		Mechanic's Pipehammer

You will also receive: 25

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

3650 experience ( 21 90 at max. level)
200 Reputation with Gnomeregan Exiles

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Rating: +74 [-] [+]

By vvildcard on 09/19/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)

White Punch Card - Drops randomly from a mob outside the instance.
Yellow Punch Card - Use an "A" machine near Techbot (Outside the instance)
Blue Punch Card - Use the "B" machine just past the Clean Room (Inside)
Red Punch Card - Use the "C" machine on Electrocutioner 6000's Platform (Inside)
Prismatic Punch Card - Use the "D" machine below Crowd Pummeler 9-60 (Inside)

Rating: +69 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

These are all of the translated messages from the five punch cards as well as all the machines:

Tell your friends to play WoW
Play the Warcarft roleplaying game
Kiss me, I'm gnomish!
The Lich King lives!
Gnomeregan forever!
How am I driving?
<insert funny message here>
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
If you can read this, you're standing too close
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Help!&nbsp I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup.

Rating: +66 [-] [+]

By Binary on 12/17/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

You receive the first card from the wandering elite mobs in the upper level outside of the instance.

Place that card in the card reader outside of the instance. (Run over to the west and get Techbot's brain while you're here).

Each card reader gives you the card needed for the next reader.

The remaining card readers are located inside the instance.

These are all of the translated messages from the five punch cards as well as all the machines:

Tell your friends to play WoW
Play the Warcarft roleplaying game
Kiss me, I'm gnomish!
The Lich King lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gnomeregan forever!
How am I driving?
<insert funny message here>
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
If you can read this, you're standing too close
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup.

Rating: +28 [-] [+]

By littlidabbi on 05/16/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

You go through Gnomeregan, slaying leper gnomes, troggs and crazed gnomes who think you're troggs. You loot cards and locate protected machines, slowly working your way up each machine until you finally have the last card...

Only to let the Quest giver know his laundry is ready for pickup.

Rating: +26 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

You receive the first card from the wandering elite mobs in the upper level outside of the instance.&nbsp

Place that card in the card reader outside of the instance.&nbsp (Run over to the west and get Techbot's brain while you're here).

Each card reader gives you the card needed for the next reader.

The remaining card readers are located inside the instance.

Hope this helps.

Rating: +17 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/17/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

*Avril - you can get the plans if you are horde, read on.*

Loot the White Punch Card from the NPCs in Gnomeregan, inside or outside the instance.

Take the White Punch Card to the Matrix Punchograph 3005-A that is located to the north of both the elevator or the transporter.

You will get the Yellow Punch Card.

Take the Yellow Punch Card to the Matrix Punchograph 3005-B that is located in the bottom of the Dormitories.

You will get a Blue Punch Card.
If you are an Engineer and managed to get a 'Security BETA Access Card' to drop, you will also get the 'Plans: Minor Discombobulator'.

Take the Blue Punch Card to the Matrix Punchograph 3005-C that is located at the top of the Launch Bay on the platform.

You will get a Red Punch Card.

Take the Red Punch Card to the Matrix Punchograph 3005-D that is located at the bottom of the platform in the Engineering Labs.

You will get a Prismatic Punch Card.
If you are an Engineer and managed to get a 'Security DELTA Access Card' to drop, you will also get the 'Plans: Discombobulator Ray'.

Take the cards back to Ironforge to complete the quest.

Rating: +9 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Those maps are awesome...they explain everything.&nbsp and ignore what the guy said about the last card, it's in the engineering lab...best way to describe it.&nbsp You need the most recent card to activate the machine, so you should be ok just keepng the last one you got to finish the quest.&nbsp so, first card drops off the non-elite mobs outside the instance, then you have to go to the machine that is in the same room(near techbot, straight ahead when you come down the tunnel into the train depot) and it gives you the next card.&nbsp then the next machine is outside the clean room, then the next machine is up a ramp when you get to the groups of gnomes around flying machines.&nbsp you go up the ramp and fight the Electrocutioner 6000, he's guarding the machine.&nbsp Then the last machine is in the engineering lab, as i already said.&nbsp Have fun!

Rating: +9 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/30/2004 (Patch 1.2.0)

White Punch Card is a drop from pretty much anything outside of the instance, as far as I can tell. 3005-A is just outside the workshop door, where you find Techbot. 3005-B is just outside of the Clean Zone (just below that, between there and the pit with the slimes and horrors.)

3005-D is in the Engineering Labs just before the Leper King's area ...

FINALLY found Punchograph 3005-C! Based on the Electocutioner tip and the fact that 3005-D is in the Engineering bay, we searched one of the two places in GNR that I haven't memorized in my now frequent explorations - one of the off-shoot tunnels from the main hub (the hub you enter from the 1st instance portal)leads to the Launch Bay, and high atop the platform in the very center is the Electrocutioner and the fabled Punchograph 3005-C. The mob also drops the Workshop Key, which is sad because I already had that and yet didn't remember that there WAS a launch bay ...

Thanks!

Edited, Tue Jan 4 21:29:56 2005

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/18/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

The binary code on the punch cards translates, through ASCII, into more proof of the immense sense of humor of the programmers.

White Punch Card
SUPER CRITICAL TRIPLE-ENCODED DATA CARD
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Yellow Punch Card
ULTRA VITAL DATA! SECURITY RATING 5122!
If you can read this, you're standing too close

Blue Punch Card
DO NOT LET THIS INFORMATION INTO ENEMY HANDS!
The gnome king wears night elf underwear

Red Punch Card
SECURITY RATING 10^10000 SUPER SENSITIVE DATA!
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!

Prismatic Punch Card
THE SECURITY RATING OF THIS CARD SO HIGH THAT IT IS PENDING THE INVENTION OF A NEW NUMBER TO DESCRIBE IT!
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup.

-Thoreau, Dwarf Hunter [Dalaran Server]

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/08/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

The white punch card (the first one) drops off the Addled Lepers (non-elite) that are outside the instance, by Techbot.&nbsp They do NOT drop off the elite mobs (Caverndeep Invaders, etc).&nbsp I know because I have been killing those elite mobs for the past hour for experience and such.

On a side note, Robo-mechanical guts DO drop off those elite mobs outside the instance.&nbsp Not a great drop rate, but good to know if you like to solo quests as much as possible like me.

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Trilless on 02/05/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

You do not need to have completed the "Castpipe's Task" Quest to pick this one up. Its a nice direction pointer for those that start out in the Night Elf Starting area, but is not required to obtain this quest.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/09/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

Ok I have completed this quest and handed it in. For some reason I still have all the punch cards minus the one that gets handed in. Is it safe to throw these old cards out now? I don't see any need for them at all and I can't sell them or trade them. It just takes up slots

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/28/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

Now i have white, yellow, blue, and red punchcards, BUT now what and how the heck do i get the prismatic card?

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Anyone know what the binary on the machines translates to?&nbsp It's obviously ASCII given that it's 8 bits per segment and each starts with 0 but I don't want to do all that work for this :P

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

where can i get the white punch card? coz ive searched everywhere n still couldnt get the punch card... ^^

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By Anonymous on 08/05/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)

<Edited> Nvm.

Edited, Fri Aug 5 04:53:31 2005

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By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

where is the prismatic card ?

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By Anonymous on 12/08/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

Does anyone know if we need all 4 cards to get the final card?&nbsp I haven't found that written anywhere, even on that very cool map Dudes mentions above.&nbsp My bank is breaking and I wondered if I could get rid of the old cards and save just the most recent aquisition, the Red card.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/08/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

--EDIT--
Lower cards are useless once data rescue is finished.

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By Anonymous on 10/31/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

I have translated 2 of the binary codes:

A:
B: "Gnomercy!"
C: "Recipe: Mechanical Chicken Soup"
D:

A:
B:
01000111 01101110 01101111
01101101 01100101 01110010
01100011 01111001 00100001
C:
01010010 01100101 01100011
01101001 01110000 01100101
00111010 00100000 01001101
01100101 01100011 01101000
01100001 01101110 01101001
01100011 01100001 01101100
00100000 01000011 01101000
01101001 01100011 01101011
01100101 01101110 00100000
01010011 01101111 01110101
01110000
D:

Can someone fill me up whit the other 2 codes, only been in there one time. (im undead/horde)

Edited, Oct 31st 2006 at 10:47am PST by Puggan

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/07/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)

3650 XP, 200 Faction with Gnomeragon Exiles at Lvl 34

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By Anonymous on 02/19/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

can i do this Q if i am lvl 10 ?

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By Anonymous on 03/18/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

C machines were in Dormatory I believe, and D was near electrocutioner 6000

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By Anonymous on 02/06/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

What's the deal with these punchcards?

Are they Alliance only or Horde only or both?

Are they for engineers or any profession/class can use them and get the quest?

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By Anonymous on 12/30/2004 (Patch 1.2.0)

The last key is at the north of the techbo, but that is only if you have the key to the "back door", Techbot is located near the first punch card machine-A (To the west of the machines) and those machines are straight from the first ramp when one enter gnomeregan. The Machine-B is inside the instance to the left after the ramp, after entering the instance, head left at the split, go straight pass another T junction, then take a left(usually there are 3 mobs there), right after take a right down the stairs, one will find a shelter there, with the machine-B and the 5200 machines. I am still looking for the C machines

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/20/2004 (Patch 1.2.0)

where is the machine for the last key..i read on another site that it was north of the techbot...but where is the techbot?

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By Anonymous on 03/13/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

I have all the punchcards but how do i get the prismatic punch card?

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By Anonymous on 03/13/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

I cant do this if im horde can I? I heard there was an engineering recipie reward for this and I would like to get my hands on it ><.

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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

Read all about the cards, went along to pick'm up,
found out at Teminal D, that the last card i get is supposed to be delievered in Ironforge......
to end a Q there. VERY disapointing, as I am a Horde !
I will now throw away everything concerning Gnomeregan and never think of that place again !
BTW. Got 2 Gnomish "Plans":
Minor Discombobulator'.
Discombobulator Ray'. Yepeeeeeeeeeee.

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By Anonymous on 12/31/2004 (Patch 1.2.0)

Red Card is found on a circular platform Where th eElectrocutioner Mech is. I think it is in the Engineering area.

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By Anonymous on 09/26/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Question about the quest... Is it necessary to hold on to the old punch cards to complete the quest? My bank is breaking at the seams for slots :/

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By Anonymous on 12/12/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

Hello,
I've finished this quest. But all 4 cards which are necessary to get the prismatic punchcard remained in my inventory.

They are soulbound and as far as i understand they have no other use.

What do i do with them? Simply throw away?

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