Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Programming on Punch Cards, the Jurassic Period...

I was telling someone just yesterday about how I had to program on punch cards in college...writing code for fortran, cobol and rpgII. Dinosaur days! I still remember the day they installed the new really cool Cande terminals for our Burroughs and we got to use those instead of cards. I also remember the day (previous to the Cande terminals) that I dropped my 350 card cobol program on the day it was due and the card sorter was broke--had to put them back in order by hand...glad we've progressed since then!

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