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Joe, many of us are old enough to have also used punch cards (52 card pickup, grrr). That's my word association for Fortran ("Fortran? Punch card!"). And don't forget tape drives (load failure in my Commodore PET because the tape stretched?!). The 8" floppy fad didn't seem to last all that long. Must be because they were terribly fragile (hey, but 2-sided 8" got you all the way up to 200 KB of storage, IIRC). Seems like 5.25" use lasted a very long time but maybe that's just my personal exposure to it.
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