Yep; punch cards - I'm so glad I'm not the only one old enough to
carry that memory! :)

(And you know what they say: Memory is the second thing to go; I
forget what the first is.)

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Francis Swasey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before that the limit was 72 characters because of punch cards (and you left 
> column 1 blank
> because that was used for line continuation) and columns 73-80 were for 
> sequencing after the
> class bully tripped you up in the hallway and you dumped your three boxes of 
> punch cards all
> over the floor.....

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