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Have you ever programmed a computer using punch cards?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Feb 18, 2006
Young 'uns today - don't know they're born...
Have you ever programmed a computer using punch cards?
Sho - employed again! Posted Feb 18, 2006
when I was in the Army we used telex machines with punched tape. I could read it pretty fast at one stage. Murray code. Everything was so blooming loud back then!
before that, when I did my computer studies O-level we had to write programs in Basic, and put them onto punched cards. A fellow on a scooter used to collect them from the school on Friday morning, and deliver the previous weeks programs. that way it took two weeks to get a program back. Which was really depressing if you'd forgotten to put the * at the top of the program, because all you got back was a blank sheet.
Oh the good ol' days!
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