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> You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape.

When I first learned to program (I was about 12), I was using paper tape and those old Bell teletypes, in a facility that still used punched cards.

Here's my punched card story -- I bumped a box with a card deck and it sent the cards flying, mixing them all up. The systems operator made me sort the cards by hand. It took me hours. It was a few months before I learned that they had a machine that would have done that for me automatically -- but the sysop had decided that I needed to learn a lesson (which I did, in fact, learn!)



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