I recently took a Final Cut Pro training class. The guy that led the class was a college grad back in the days of punch cards. His graduating thesis was roughly 15 - 20 seconds of Mary Had a Little Lamb on punch cards (one of the first people to program music on a computer). He carried the thousands of cards around in a wagon on campus at Notre Dame.
Maybe, maybe not. Core memory was noisy. We used to open the cabinet door and place an AM radio close to the core and run cards through the card reader. We would then turn the dial to get the best sound. There were plenty of "music" decks of cards in the late 50's.
Chances are your "Professor" was as much a pioneer as Al Gore.
BTW, it took a mere handfull of cards to play 20 seconds of Mary Had A Little Lamb.
BTW, it took a mere handfull of cards to play 20 seconds of Mary Had A Little Lamb.Maybe I have the actual playing time of his composition wrong. He's very much the programmer (among other accomplishments) and is quite brilliant. In fact, he does a lot of work for our gubmint and for NASA (has a level 5 security clearance). He's also at the top of Apple's list of instructors for Final Cut Pro and other utilities ... that's how we found out about him.