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To: P.O.E.

COBOL, Assembler and Fortran here.

All on 80 column punched cards.

Those Assembler decks of cards were huge.


60 posted on 06/13/2021 1:35:26 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired
Those Assembler decks of cards were huge.

And you had to debug by poring over a hex dump

62 posted on 06/13/2021 2:35:36 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: tired&retired

“Those Assembler decks of cards were huge.”

I was “stacking” Fortran cards in 1981 in Engineering School. I’m a dinosaur.


91 posted on 06/13/2021 2:25:44 PM PDT by bigcat32
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