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Very cool. I have a sense of the punch card era, but this is the first anecdotal write-up of an intermediary period that still relied on paper input that I've seen. Thanks for sharing!

I eat up computer history, but it's especially nice to hear firsthand accounts about seemingly mundane stuff like workflow.



If you want more, there's always this:

Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss 11 skills and tactics that every programmer once needed to master ... and today can blissfully forget http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9132061/Old_school_pr...




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