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by trynewideas 3634 days ago
There's also the people who reportedly spoke to Ron Hackler about the photo[1][2], who notes that "they wrote all of the AGC source code on AGC source coding paper".

Such sheets would look like this: http://www.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/software/IBM360-codin...

And would likely be much less dense than the printouts.

[1] Steve Dolha on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Was-this-pile-of-code-written-by-a-sin...

[2] This imgur post: https://www.quora.com/Was-this-pile-of-code-written-by-a-sin...