"So now I dug out my pad of coding forms and wrote one line on it, this time including the missing comma. I took it back to Maria and asked her to make me a new

"So now I dug out my pad of coding forms and wrote one line on it, this time including the missing comma. I took it back to Maria and asked her to make me a new card." The luxuries of a pro ... (although further down the page he is using the spare card punch machine himself.) I met punched cards for an IBM 360 as a student - besides punching our own cards, in a public room with a dozen machines clattering away, we needed a "credit card" at the head of the deck. This was a pink-colored card (instead of the run-of-the-mill cream) pre-punched with the number of CPU seconds allowed for the job.