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Grandma went back a ways before computers started talking to each other, she used to tell me about her astonishment when computers started talking to each other "they can do that" she told me she used to think. She told me about her first job at the DoD where she would walk about with a bunch a wires on her arm and would plug them into sockets on the huge computer in the basement in order to program the thing. She used to tell me about teams of programers wandering through this tangled web of wires trying to figgure out what went wrong.
Pop talked about putting together programs in punch cards which he had to be very careful to keep in proper order.
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