froth wrote: 
> other "leading edge" computer systems 

When I learned programming as a teenager at school, the language was
Fortran ("Purdue University Fast Fortran Translator" PUFFT), we used 80
column cards for input, and the IBM "Port-a-Punch" to write them; -- and
when you made a typo you would glue the chad back in the hole and start
over ;-)


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