[the invisib1e hand]

some of my first programs were on punch cards. I remember the “Timex” computer. I owned a Commodore 64 and I used to spend hours playing Ms. Pac Man with my girlfriend.

[dfwgator]

Back in my day, we coded in 0’s and 1’s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1’s.....and that’s the way it was and we liked it.

[cspackler]

I had the VIC 20. Played the Lunar Lander game for hours on that thing when I wasn’t cranking out the BASIC programs. Even got the cassette drive to save my programs.

Good times.

[cspackler]

I had the VIC 20. Played the Lunar Lander game for hours on that thing when I wasn’t cranking out the BASIC programs. Even got the cassette drive to save my programs.

Good times.

[Tired of Taxes]

The punch cards, the Commodore 64... and don’t forget Pong. Old times. (I was not a programmer, btw, just the child of one in the early days.)

[Erasmus]

Date: Winter ‘63.
Computer: IBM 1620.
Peripherals: 28K extended core, 1407 card reader/punch, 402 accounting machine.
Translator: Forgo (simplified 2-pass Fortran, all cards)
Program: “Hello world!”

[Mike Darancette]

some of my first programs were on punch cards.

Punch cards you lucky! We had paper tape.