Yeah, those were the days.  I recall one time when this Asian kid (math
majors always seem to be Asian back then..dunno why.) was carrying this
huge box of Hollerith cards out of the Electrical Engineering building
at Ohio State and he tripped.  Cards went everywhere.  I figured at
first it was just a few lines of code and the rest were data cards, but
by the way he was screaming/crying I soon figured out it was an entire
deck of FORTRAN source code.  Poor kid.


-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Deri James
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Computers

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 22:46:08 Virginia Perry wrote:
> Although it can't top the original, I liked this version because it
made me
> realize I hadn't considered how odd those terms would be to a true
newb.
>
> Oh, and I played with punch cards as a child because my dad was in
> computers from the early '60s until he retired.
>

My wife, Lin, trained as a punch-card data entry clerk, although she
gave up 
work 29 years ago, I think she may need retraining if she wanted to go
back 
to work now.

My first program was on paper tape using Dartford BASIC.

Cheers

Deri

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