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To: Traveler59; All

I have all of you beat - I remember using punchcards instead of keyboards. For on class we had periodic assignments to create simple programs (in FORTRAN!) and would leave our bundle rubber-handed together in a file drawer in the computer room for the computer geeks to run at night or over the weekend. If you REALLY didn’t like someone you slipped a rather file piece of Swiss or Limberger cheese in with his or her cards (the computer geeks really appreciated that) :>)

We played some games like Star Trek or landing a rocket on the Moon over a 300 baud line...slower than s huff!


24 posted on 01/11/2021 8:58:35 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: Ancesthntr

“I have all of you beat - I remember using punchcards instead of keyboards.”

And I have jumper wired punchcard sorting machines. So there.


49 posted on 01/12/2021 6:23:56 AM PST by dljordan
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