[The Great RJ]

Makes me feel old having my first computer experience writing programs in a BASIC predecessor, FORTRAN, entering my programs and data on punch cards

[LibWhacker]

. . . my first computer experience writing programs in a BASIC predecessor, FORTRAN, entering my programs and data on punch cards.

I used to love those old cards and didn't want to give them up, and when rumors began circulating that a keyboard and monitor were someday going to replace the whole punch card process (punch your cards, give 'em to the guy at the counter, come back in a couple of hours to pick up your printout and find out whether your program had bombed or not), I just couldn't figure out what the heck the monitor was for, lol!

[fjsva]

I've tried to explain to my son and nephews how I programmed in FORTRAN 77 on punch cards in college.

My son wanted to know how you could tell if the games worked when you didn't have a monitor...

[Allan]

Makes me feel old having my first computer experience
writing programs in a BASIC predecessor, FORTRAN,
entering my programs and data on punch cards

OK everyone.
I wrote my first program on an LGP30
not on punched cards
but on punched tape
in machine language
in which numerical constants
had to be 'input' in binary.

Can anyone beat that?