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Originally Posted by ULVideo
Yes they did.
The first computer I programmed on was a Wang (don't remember which model), and then it was on to mainframes ("Fuck... I dropped, my deck"... punchcards sucked big time). First mini was the original IBM PC in ?1982?.
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Oh, yeah, almost forgot. I also put the first online data entry system in at the Federal Reserve around '79 or '80 so we could get away from cards. The operations staff didn't trust it for about a year, so they kept punching cards as a backup in case they lost the online data.
The card decks to program the reader/sorters for check processing were about a dozen boxes with about a 1000 cards in each one. When the old card readers jammed it was a real PITA.