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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (24909)	1/5/2005 1:24:44 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"It resulted in stacks of punch cards, sometimes 1-3" high, being fed into card readers." That's nothing. My wife used to write programs that used a most of a box of the cards - a stack a foot or more high - and a friend of mine would occasionally be seen returning from the lab with multiple boxes for one project. As for myself, I stopped taking computer science classes after trying to program in Theta and PL1 the first semester. Aaaahhh!!! ;-) "For complicated programs, those decks would be run through the readers dozens of times." Ever see someone drop a big stack of 'em? ;-(