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To: Pontiac

Heh

Then there were the punch cards you did by hand for EBCDIC.

We did that one time in tech school. I think that was the one where we had to hand-code everything in Assembler.


16 posted on 12/22/2020 1:58:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

I never did any coding in tech school.

I did some DOS coding as a hobby on a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A

But I did see some guys in tech school walking around with shoe boxes filled with punch cards. This was 80-82.

Little did they know that little more than a decade later those skills would be only useful in government agencies like the IRS.


17 posted on 12/22/2020 2:11:17 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: SaveFerris

Then there were the punch cards you did by hand for EBCDIC.>>> A company i was consulting with in the 80’ had a card punch/reader. They were splitting the company into tow entities and dividing up datasets by company. One small file i punched out sorted by company, split the stack into two parts where the company break was, and gave the director of each company their company’s stack.


26 posted on 12/22/2020 5:40:11 AM PST by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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