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Originally Posted by Mike L
We always used to say that you couldn't call yourself a computer programmer until you had dropped a 2,000-card tray containing your program, and put the cards back in the right order -- by hand.
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If that's the qualification for a computer programmer, I must have been an extremely good programmer. Millions of punch cars, if not more, have passed through my hands but I have no current access to any. Punching cards was probably where I learnt to be an accurate typist also and how all the location of all the special characters on the keyboard are remembered.
I remember giving the last hundred or so away to friends who spray pained them gold or red to make Christmas wreaths out of them.
WDE.