Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Pierre Fortin]

Deryk Barker wrote:
> 
> Thus spake Mark Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> > honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
> > cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally
> > forever!
> 
> Only if you had to punch the cards one hole at a time, by hand (as I
> did with the very first program I ever wrote, 1968 Fortan for an IBM
> 7090)

Mark-sense cards were definitely easier, just needed a 2B pencil...

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