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To: Signalman
Here’s what really bothers me. After much anguish and frustration, I finally got proficient with computer punch cards. Then some pinhead somewhere got rid of the whole system.


6 posted on 04/27/2024 3:25:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real)
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To: Leaning Right

I learned to program on Fortran punchcards with a Univac computer the occupied 2 air conditioned floors of the E.E.R.C. building at Michigan Technological University in 1976. Good times. Houghton/Hancock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.


20 posted on 04/27/2024 4:00:06 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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31 posted on 04/27/2024 4:51:23 PM PDT by 4Liberty ( Kamala’s relatives owned slaves. )
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To: Leaning Right

Ah yes, the days of feeding your cards to the IBM 360 to find your typos. THe machine the school had to read and give you a printout was notorious for eating cards.

So, feed them to the computer and hope you did not screw up.


46 posted on 04/27/2024 6:07:06 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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