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To: Scumbria who wrote (78110)4/8/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Dropping a deck of punched cards only happened to me once, but I certainly learned not to ever do that again. IBM 1620. Assembly language. Loved the airconditioned room and the white-coated computer operators. Cut my teeth on the IBM1620, PDP-8 (Fortran) and the Intel 8008. Later graduated to the 8080 and the 8048.



To: Scumbria who wrote (78110)4/8/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: DownSouth  Respond to of 186894
 
ASM



To: Scumbria who wrote (78110)4/8/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Joseph Ziebarth  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Dropping cards is why everyone made a copy deck. IBM 29 Keypunch.



To: Scumbria who wrote (78110)4/9/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
My favorite dump however was when the computer operator dropped the punchcard deck on the floor, after removing the rubber band.

I started at Indiana State University in fall of 1981. The last time the freshmen CS class was taught using punch cards was spring of 1981. My wife took an MIS course at University of Arizona around this same time where they used punch cards and it soured her on computers for nearly a decade.


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