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I actually did use Punch Cards in my first computer class in college.

Ditto....

There's nothing more funny/tragic than watching a classmate running through the parking lot to get their assignment to the main frame before they closed and seeing them trip and the card deck scatter on the pavement... No way to get them gathered up and in the right order in time...

Sad.... but still funny...

P.S. I loved the sound of the next card sliding into position on the keypunch machine..

P.S.S If I recall my first program was an amortization schedule..

303 posted on 02/02/2023 8:53:44 AM PST by darbymcgill

IBM 029 Keypunch Machine.

We typed our first computer programs in 1972 in college on these.By 1976, I was using IBM Call 360/370, with terminal,pinfeed paper, and a phone in a cradle to transmit data.

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