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Posted By: Joann

Yeah punch cards were a pain - especially if you dropped them and had skipped the numbering step. But they had the advantage that different people could work on different programming loops quickly and put it together by stacking the cards. I took Fortran in the summer one year in college so it was accelerated, and we routinely split the assignments that way.

What's funny is that I remember thinking that the punch card machine was really, really automated and that that was so cool. Duh.

Joann