Learned to program assembly language on punch cards to run on the IBM 370. One line per card - just like in the story - and you don't want to fall down and drop

Learned to program assembly language on punch cards to run on the IBM 370. One line per card - just like in the story - and you don't want to fall down and drop your cards....imagine trying to reorganize 10000 lines of code (I like the red line in the photos - can't recall we using that). Sometimes, the computer just ate the cards....and no matter what, you weren't getting more than 24 runs in a day 9assuming you stayed up all night, which we did), so you had to really think through the code before sitting down to write it. Mine was the last class to learn assembly on the punch cards (1983) - the next year they wheeled the punch card readers out....but you could still only do programing at the terminals in the computer lab....no programming in your room. That's how I learned Pascal, machine language, Fortran, and C.