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Old 13-05-2010, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Newbie.

Real programmers can multipunch their machine code on 80 column cards.
Oh yeah ... I remember the paper tape days too ... Octal machines ... with pixie neons for displays and HUGE banks of transistor based cards that were the memory .. they used some form of magnetizing, just forget exactly .. They would just call that machine a heater nowdays

Boy haven't we advanced, what a thread, what a trip down memory lane .. no pun intended.
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