Tom Royer wrote:
> "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.

Or if you have a cat who thinks "gee, this must be a fun new game"

Jill