On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Rick Schummer wrote:
> While at college I watched a young women breakdown in tears when
> her card deck was scattered across the hallway in the Engineering
> building. She was on deadline and had no chance of reassembling her
> program in time.
What? No one ever showed her the diagonal line trick? That was as
much a part of safe computing as saving a file frequently is today.
> I for one was fortunate never to have to use cards other than a
> bookmark in my text books. <g>
When I cleaned out my parents' house I found some of my old decks
from my college days. I thought about saving them for all of one
second, and then tossed them. I'm not one for nostalgia.
-- Ed Leafe
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