"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Steve Calvin wrote:
>>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
>> 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.
>
> Oh, man, I would laugh except I know your pain. (sequence the damm
> cards, nancy) And, obviously, your program was much more difficult
> than mine, mine was just an inventory program.
>
> God bless the cards, long die the cards.
>
> nancy

I've done that. But I started with paper tape. You
drop that, you don't have to get things back into
sequence, you just spend a couple of hours untangling
it -- unless, of course, it rips.



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Thomas C Royer
Lead Engineer, Software Test
The MITRE Corporation
"If you're not free to fail, you're not free" -- Gene Burns