Nancy Young wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>
>>Jill <---learned programming on punch cards... what they're good for now is
>>making cheap holiday wreaths
>
>
> That's funny, same here. Sitting there punching my programs onto
> cards was a lot of fun. Right. One time, I left my lab project in
> my car. A stack of cards easily 5 inches high. You wonder why
> programmers get carpal tunnel syndrome. Anyway, the cards were bound
> with a rubber band. My ex had to stop short when someone cut him off
> and the cards went *everywhere* ... I cried I was so upset. You
> have to understand, you had major league deadlines and I had to
> key it all in again. What a nightmare. Let me never see a keypunch
> card again.
>
> nancy
Ah yes... I remember them well. I'm my young smart-a$$ed days I said
"hey, I'm not taking the time to number these stupid cards" I had a
whole box (the ones that were about 2 or 2 1/2 feet long) with a deck
that had the wiring instructions for a computor board that I had
designed. I was carring the box down to the reader room to feed them in
and a guy came around the corner, the cards when flying all over the
freekin' place. Needless to say I numbered my cards after that one.

--
Steve

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