Always great to read these stories. My dad worked with punch cards to crunch numbers in Fortran as a young statistician. Initially the university had only one

Always great to read these stories. My dad worked with punch cards to crunch numbers in Fortran as a young statistician. Initially the university had only one big machine. Every day at 5PM there were long lines of people delivering their decks of cards with source code to the computing center. At night clerks fed all the jobs to the machine, and at 9AM there was another line of people getting their job output back. The output cards were stacked in boxes on the wall by user name. You could tell the height of the output decks from some distance, and if a box only contained one card, you knew instantly it was a syntax error and someone was going to have a bad day. So apparently at their start of computing, they immediately had a nice analog build status visualization.