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Old 07-21-2004, 01:50 AM   #13
bluesdave
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wolf
Yep, we had to chisel holes in punch cards that were made out of clay tablets ...
Same here. I learnt Fortran on a Univac 1106. One student was assigned to shovel coal into the boiler to keep the steam pressure up. Ahrrr, those were the good old days...
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