Post #2329744

2022-11-29 15:13 UTC

@stavvers@masto.ai Yeah, programming with punch cards was a bear…:) >old guy here

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@abrasrose@mas.to 2022-11-29 19:22

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai UCI got rid of cards the year before I took a computer class. I’m still grateful.

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@markmorgan@mas.to 2022-11-29 22:51

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai JCL here //FT08f001 blah blah until col80

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@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud 2022-11-30 02:50

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai oh luxury what I wouldn’t have given to put my code on decks of punch cards. When I was a youngun we wrote our laws on stone tablets, straight from Yahweh Himself!

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@cjcrew@mastodon.sdf.org 2022-11-30 12:25

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai Try running those damn things through a reader and card punch. Or better yet, dropping an entire tray of punch cards and having to put them back, in order.

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@Rain2Er@c.im 2022-11-30 15:07

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai same Lol

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@jackyan@mastodon.social 2022-12-01 00:26

@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu @stavvers@masto.ai Younger than you, but I kept some of the punch cards from school … As to software delivery, I remember that coming on cartridges or disks. By boat.

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