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Old 08-13-2005, 09:00 PM  
Grinder
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Originally Posted by mikeyddddd
I had forgotten those, but now I remember using a utility program called ditto to read punch cards and write to an impact printer.
Ewww! Punch Cards

In college I had to write programs in FORTRAN on punch cards. One line of code per card then bind them with a rubber band and drop them off at the computer center.

If you dropped them and got them out of order you were fucked.

Than it would take several hours for a little program to run and print out the results.

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