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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
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.
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I remember having to buff floors between the old punch card computers. That whole room of computers had less memory and storage than many modern PCs, not to mention they were as slow as dead turtles with four broken legs. And that was state of the art. Bump one of those suckers with the buffer and it "forgot" everything it ever knew. When I moved from the floor crew to warehousing, one of my first jobs was using a heat transfer machine to transfer transactions to large cards from a printout one line at a time. We also used punchcards for tracking stock balances and one of the daily jobs was to replace outdated cards with new ones.
My first computer was a Commodore C64c.