The Cellar - View Single Post - When is the last time you used a FLOPPY disk?

richlevy · 12-13-2009, 02:41 PM

At my tech school, I was in one of the last classes to compile programs using punch cards. At my first job one of my jobs was to change over a department that was processing rejected punch cards by hand to a using a report.

I am, however, too young to have used paper tape, which was like large ticker tape.

I don't remember if I ever used an 8" floppy disk.

Not only do I still code in COBOL, I am the same age as COBOL!

12-13-2009, 02:41 PM	#6
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	At my tech school, I was in one of the last classes to compile programs using punch cards. At my first job one of my jobs was to change over a department that was processing rejected punch cards by hand to a using a report. I am, however, too young to have used paper tape, which was like large ticker tape. I don't remember if I ever used an 8" floppy disk. Not only do I still code in COBOL, I am the same age as COBOL! __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama