[Bob]

I’m dating myself as I too remember that sound from the old Univac 1100 data tapes.

How about the screams of the programmer who just dropped his 500-card stack of IBM punchcards that used to be his FORTRAN program? :=)

[tired&retired]

“”How about the screams of the programmer who just dropped his 500-card stack of IBM punchcards that used to be his FORTRAN program? :=)””

Assembler on punched cards was even worse than Fortran!

I learned most of the dinosaur languages, including COBOL, Fortran and Assembler on punched cards.... They sucked!