> every time we talked old school someone would bring up paper tape and punched cards which totally predate me. I wonder where those people are now! I once met

> every time we talked old school someone would bring up paper tape and punched cards which totally predate me. I wonder where those people are now! I once met this university professor - he is the husband of a friend of my mother's, they had trouble with their computer, I fixed it, and while we sat there, we talked, and he told me that he had in the 1980s a colleague down the hall who carried data around on paper tape. During my training, I knew this guy who still had a stack of punched cards sitting on his desk he used to take notes. Sigh Some part of me is really glad I can now carry gigabytes of data on a flash drive smaller than my finger, but another part of me wants to have been there.