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Originally Posted by rogerg
I bet before long someone will pipe up with a story about punch cards in this thread
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Yep, OK,
as an undergraduate in engineering at UNSW I had to do lots of programming assignments, and these were prepared on punched cards.
All of us spent ages on these card punch machines, one per line I think, in Fortran IV, making our programs, bundling the cards with a rubber band, and leaving them in the pigeon hole in the Elec Eng Building at Kenso.
One day I crossed the quad in a very high wind and tripped. You guessed it, a shower of cards went as high as the building.
Ah well, back to the keyboard.
GeoffW1