[xp38]

you're all noobs....punch cards are it

[eyedigress]

I don’t appreciate my SSN being displayed on FR! Dammit!

[buccaneer81]

I remember staying up all night at university to use a keypunch. We has assignments due every Friday morning. At the end of the semester, we would take all the punch cards to the University library and rain them down on the lower levels from the balcony.

[buccaneer81]

Remember punch cards used for toll roads? Massachusetts and Maine did in the ‘70s.

[OCC]

you're all noobs....punch cards are it

I remember those. Typos were a bitch! I will never forget when I dropped a 5 inch stack of cards (a class project) held together by rubber bands exploded on the floor. Luckily I had an error free printout to hand in.

[WVKayaker]

My first computer... cams, gears, rollers, servos, linked with a gyro... FT/G

[Paladin2]

That one looks a little bent. Are you sure it still works?

[La Lydia]

What IS that?

[cynwoody]

you're all noobs....punch cards are it

That's a line of Job Control Language on your punch card. Fred Brooks, under whose leadership JCL was invented, has called it the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. Fred Brooks is a Mac user.

[NerdDad]

I still have a stack of those. I use them for bookmarks. Then I have to explain what they are to the kids sitting around me in my college classes (and some of my professors).

[TXnMA]

LOL!! When we unpacked after our move from MA to TX, I found one of those clear Lucite weights we used to put atop the card stacks to keep them feeding right... ‘-)