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To: ShadowAce

Blast from the past from an old programmer. Back in the day people were amazed that I could read a punched card that did not have any verbiage above.


9 posted on 11/12/2019 4:30:20 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: duckman

I write my pins on the back of my debit cards in binary with a bit shift. It helps keep me centered.


12 posted on 11/12/2019 4:48:24 AM PST by glorgau
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To: duckman
I could read a punched card

Tch, tch! Please, ours is a technical profession, proper terminology at all times! Hollerith or IBM Card unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed! Still have nightmares of a spilled box of the same!


13 posted on 11/12/2019 4:53:39 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: duckman
...I could read a punched card...

Boy, does that bring back memories.

Where I went to school, you could pick out the computer science majors; they all had a half dozen rubber bands around their wrists. The engineering majors had a slide rule in a holster on their hips. (The math majors were all off in their own world somewhere.)

26 posted on 11/12/2019 5:58:09 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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