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banjo | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 At least no one is "punchcard old" (or are they)? 😃

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jasonc741 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Not punch card old, but i did learn Fortran 77 in a freshman engineering class in 1994. Fortran syntax was still based on 70 characters per line to fit punched cards. Next semester the department switched to C++. Interesting fact the electrical modeling software PSS/E-PSCAD still uses Fortran.
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Samuel #BTC | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I used punchcards once at an engineering firm to reload an original NRC approved/verified program, that we modified and were forced to compare our modified output to an original values which had to be reloaded from “cards” for recertification.   I think it was a government thing.
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Dim | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Never used 'em, but I did shuffle my dad's stack once...
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sebrock | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Make no mistake. As a kid, I used to draw on the backsides of these.