Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Museum

[gene <carzrgr8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Of course I laughed when I saw the IBM card keypunch machine.  I am
> certainly not the only person on this list who used one of those
> things in the distant past.
> 
> I now await the long thread of people reminiscing about the time they
> dropped their deck of cards, scattering them all over the place, and
> totally messing up the Fortran program they needed to graduate.
> 

I got the pleasure of doing some fortran in my freshman year, using 
punch cards.  Although I don't remember dropping them (but I probably 
did) I do remember pounding away on those machines, then submitting the 
job for a batch run - only to come back later and find it didn't run 
because a card was out of sequence.  Ugh.  It usually happened when I 
procrastinated until the last minute, then hoped it would run in time 
for class - which it never did :)




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