Luxury! I used to have to snip endless chads out of punched cards to represent the very zeroes and ones of the program i was writing! Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
You were lucky. When I was a lad there were only 3 Yorkshiremen in that sketch.
3! Paradise! We never had 3 Yorkshiremen, we had to make do with a pair of pythons, a goodie and Doctor Frankensteins' henchman. And we didn't even have an abacus to program on, we had to make do with fingers and toes and pretend they were turing compliant. And some of us didn't even have toes or fingers!
You had cards? We had to use a hammer and awl to punch the holes into vellum that we tanned ourselves.
That is a rip-off of an even older User Friendly strip.
LOOLL! such a laugh!! Tnx
You think you're joking. I remember having to use a $5000 box of real fan fold vellum to print a short document as specified by some govt contract or other.
You had zeros and ones? We only had ones, until one day someone discovered a zero when he accidentally subtracted two ones.
Before going to school, and thereafter in the summer, I do remember writing WATFIV and SNOBOL programs on punch cards, but I used a card punch machine to create them.