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Old 07-28-2010, 08:09 AM   #62
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You really want proof of my age?

Hollerith codes and 3-valued IFs. Also, punch cards.

I think I'll just go decay quietly in the corner now.
You'll have company.

OK, I don't go back QUITE as far, but most of my undergraduate career was spent submitting code on punch cards. I'll never forget the night before senior project was due -- the CS basement was jammed to the gills with procrastinators. A guy sitting next to me had just spent an hour checking his cards. He grabbed up his trays, stood up and turned to rush over to the submission window when it happened. Somehow, his foot caught on the table leg. He went down and 800 cards went up, settling all over that corner of the room. To this day when I read the phrase "a look of despair" I think of that guy's face.

I did work on PDP-11s in graduate school.

--Nathanael
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