OLD DAYS

[Kenny Hitt]

When I started my CS classes in 1983, we were still using punched cards.
The first thing you did when your program came back with errors was 
make sure the card punched what was printed on the card.

         Kenny

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:45:49AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Dan, You don't remember punched cards?
> 
> Even as late as the early 1970's, everyone in the U.S. got a
> punched card, at least one, in the mail every week. Our phone
> bills came with punched cards that had to be returned in order
> that our remittances would be credited to our account properly.
> 
> Have we so soon forgotten that ostensibly immortal refrain of the
> 60's:
> 
> Do not bend, fold, staple, or mutilate ...
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Well I don't remember punch cards but we used paper tape extensively
> > with our teletype on a time sharing system, and it was all basic in
> > those days.
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote:
> > 
> > > hI,
> > > i REMEMBER bitnET AND RELAY (RAN ON TOP OF RSCS).  i ALSO REMEMBER PAPER
> > > TAPE AND PUNCH CARDS.
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 
> > 
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