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Was curious how a statement was converted to punches. Found this. https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/read-your-own-punch-cards/ https://craftofcodi

Was curious how a statement was converted to punches. Found this. https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/read-your-own-punch-cards/ https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/read-your-own... Imagine only programming with 64 CHARACTERS :)

vermilingua 7y ago
Can imagine that quite easily really, only characters missing from that list that would be used often would be curly braces.
- kps 7y ago
  Unless your shop only had the commercial version, so your A(I)=B(I)+C(I) looked like A%I¤#B%I¤&C%I¤.
rbanffy 7y ago
I cut my teeth on 40 columns on an Apple II+. It took a couple years before I had the money to buy a VidEx 80-column card (and two more until I got an Apple //e)
- ncmncm 7y ago
  I worked at Videx in the '80s, and designed the 2nd generation 80-column card, and the 2nd-generation keyboard fixer, with macro capability; it had a little 6502 (6504) on it. Apple ][ (that is how they wrote it then) had an upper-case only keyboard, though some had a switch inside you could flip to enable lower case. Nice to know somebody remembers them.
  - rbanffy 7y ago
    I really wanted that 132 second-gen card, but getting an official one in Brazil was not an option - I had to live with the clones. My II+ (clone, by CCE) with the keyboard fixer and its function keys was my favorite computer for a long time and was my developer box until well after I got a //e (also a clone), which was used as the testing machine and for AppleWorks/SuperCalc
GnarfGnarf 7y ago
How about programming in Assembler with a maximum of four characters per label or variable name?