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Before my time, but my understanding is that in ye olden days you'd write out your programs by hand, transcribe it to machine code on punch cards, and then subm
by saalweachter 3y ago
Before my time, but my understanding is that in ye olden days you'd write out your programs by hand, transcribe it to machine code on punch cards, and then submit the stack of cards for batch processing.
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- mech422 3y agothat's what I was guessing, but I wasn't sure ... I came in a bit after punch cards :-P
- arrowsmith 3y agoMy uncle tells me that this is exactly how he would complete his programming assignments while getting his engineering degree back in the '70s.
- com 3y agoI remember when we could use an HB pencil for optical reader cards - no punch at home necessary!
- hinkley 3y agoMy dad switched into IT in the late 80’s, via community college. So being a community college, they still had a machine that ran on card readers. As I recall they had a machine that took the “scantron” cards and spit out punched ones. And I don’t remember if they had it or I just read about it later, but someone did eventually invent a punchcard sorter. You had to number the cards, and then you could stuff a dropped deck into the machine and it would save your bacon.
- kragen 3y agodid you write software in this way i've only ever seen it for multiple-choice questions
- com 3y agoYep! Logo I recall.
- kitd 3y agoCode was usually written out by hand (and code-reviewed) first before being sent off for compilation. If there was no terminal at home, the first part of that could be done over fax/telephone.