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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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LOL, well I've dropped a few boxes of those but I always had access to a sorter. Now lets really challenge the youngsters;
What languages did you use?
Me Fortran and Cobal, My Mom and Sister RP1 I think.
And yes I've done programing on them punching in the command lines and programing on paper tape, and I've even programmed using banks of switches.
First program I ever did was on a TI calculator. A kind of assembly language as I remember.
LOL Now it's gigabyte networking, oh my.