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by mtdewcmu 4341 days ago
Programming in the punch card-era sounded better. When it was time to compile your program, you got to take a walk, and you met girls.
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walshemj 4341 days ago
mm but the waiting in line wasn't fun - back in the 80's we had a dial up link to a mainframe to run CFD models,

I recall one day in our terminal room one of the engineers came in logged on - then commented with a sigh 48 jobs in the queue ahead of hers.

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mtdewcmu 4340 days ago
You were using punch cards in the 80s? I thought they'd given way to magnetic storage by then.
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walshemj 4340 days ago
Not at out end we used to get data back from some of our partners (Admiralty Research Establishment at Portland from memory) in paper tape form - I had a few paper cuts from our high-speed paper tape reader.
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